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A Look At Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films (2016) 

February 26th, 2016 | POSTED BY Brooke Corso

The five Oscar nominated short films this year hail from Europe, the United States, and the Middle East. They involve themes of communication, belonging, honor, and isolation. Each contains at least one moment, even if barely a glimmer, of understanding between two characters separated by age,…

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An Analysis – American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson (2016) 

February 11th, 2016 | POSTED BY Brooke Corso

The first episode of Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski’s American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson is entitled “From the Ashes of Tragedy.” It opens with footage of the beating of Rodney King by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, interspersed with the…

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6 Thrillers or Horror Films Set in School

January 4th, 2016 | POSTED BY Brooke Corso

School is supposed to be a safe haven for students and teachers: a place for growth, learning, exploration, and security. Unfortunately, it can also be a period of awkwardness, isolation, and torment, depending on what side of the cafeteria you ate. Horror films or thrillers…

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The MacGuffin’s Top 10 Films of 2015

January 1st, 2016 | POSTED BY Sarah Ksiazek

The writers at The MacGuffin all had a favorite film of 2015. The neat thing about writing for a site like this one is that there are many voices and opinions on all different types of films. We don’t all agree on how much we…

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Top Female Performances of 2015

December 23rd, 2015 | POSTED BY Brooke Corso

Written by Brooke Corso and Sarah Ksiazek To cover a year in which the state of women in Hollywood – both in front of and behind the camera – is increasingly scrutinized, questioned, and restructured, we chose roles across genres and even selected one actress…

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An Analysis – The Legacy of Star Wars

December 16th, 2015 | POSTED BY Allen Almachar

The legacy of Star Wars is so large that it has surpassed the films themselves. Toys, lunch boxes, shirts, books, comics, video games, cereal – the list goes on and on. The following this franchise has is unlike anything we’ve seen. Just about everybody who…

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Double Feature Showdown – Maniac (1980) vs. Maniac (2012)

October 29th, 2015 | POSTED BY Adelaide Blair

I am a big fan of director William Lustig’s movies Maniac Cop and Vigilante, and have been looking forward to watching Maniac (1980), his first feature, for a while now. I don’t think everything he directed is gold (I quite dislike Maniac Cop 2 and Uncle…

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Double Feature Showdown – The Faculty vs. Cooties

October 23rd, 2015 | POSTED BY Adelaide Blair

I’m going to be honest with you; I am not a fan of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. (I kind of like the books, but I haven’t read them in about twenty years, so who knows what I think now.) The movies are…

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