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MacGuffin Spotlight

MacGuffin Roundtable #17 – Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

December 3rd, 2011 | POSTED BY Spencer Fornaciari

The MacGuffin crew discuss Rare Exports: A Christmas Story, from director Jalmari Helander and starring Onni Tommila. This episode can be played online via the flash player below or it can be downloaded from here. It is available on iTunes and Stitcher.

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Schlock Shelf – Hot Skin 3D

December 2nd, 2011 | POSTED BY Chad Eng

I would try to explain to you how 3D pornography blurs the line between awesome and horrific, as well as disgusting and hilarious, but I can’t. Suffice it to say, it isn’t arousing. It wasn’t arousing in the ’70s, and watching a movie from the…

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An Appreciation – Black Narcissus

November 27th, 2011 | POSTED BY Allen Almachar

At first glance, the premise of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s film Black Narcissus (1947) was one that I was not entirely excited to see. The story about a group of nuns sent out to the high hilltops of the Himalayan Mountains to establish a…

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Bird Watching – Jennie Livingston’s “Paris Is Burning”

November 21st, 2011 | POSTED BY Brandi Sperry

For a period of time in the mid-to-late 1980s, first-time documentarian Jennie Livingston took her camera into the world of New York City’s “ball” scene, a phenomenon amongst minorities in the gay community of that area and time. Many participants competed in the raucous events;…

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What We’re Watching – 11/16/2011

November 16th, 2011 | POSTED BY Allen Almachar

I’ve been trying to expand my horizons a bit more with the latest couple of titles that I’ve been seeing. There’s so much great work from everywhere that it always feels like I’m catching up to everyone else. I made it a point to see…

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An Analysis – Television vs. Film

November 14th, 2011 | POSTED BY Benjamin Rendall

This has been percolating in my head for awhile. About how many people consider TV in a new golden age in the 2000s? With Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and Dexter, and new shows like Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones emerging as well, the argument…

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MacGuffin Roundtable #16 – Trespass

November 12th, 2011 | POSTED BY Spencer Fornaciari

The MacGuffin crew discuss Trespass, from director Joel Schumacher and starring Nicolas Cage & Nicole Kidman. This episode can be played online via the flash player below or it can be downloaded from here. It is available on iTunes and Stitcher.

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Pulling Focus – Found Footage Films and Marketing

November 9th, 2011 | POSTED BY Sean Watson

Found footage horror films are a genuinely modern phenomenon. We can attempt to trace roots to Cannibal Holocaust in 1980, tie origins to the aesthetic and stylistic techniques in the even older cinéma vérité genre, or, if we really want to go back, we can…

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