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    Top 15 Films of 2022 – Allen’s Picks

    January 3rd, 2023
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    Film Review – The Gray Man

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    Film Review – Hustle

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    An Appreciation – Cléo from 5 to 7

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    An Appreciation – Five Easy Pieces

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    Top 15 Films of 2021 – Allen’s Picks

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    An Appreciation – Monsoon Wedding

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MacGuffin Spotlight

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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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An Appreciation – Heat

April 21st, 2015 | POSTED BY Allen Almachar

Michael Mann’s Heat (1995) is the culmination of a career long obsession for its creator. For as long as Mann has been a filmmaker, he’s constantly returned to the same subject: the intricacies and nuances of characters operating on both sides of the law. Cops…

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Can You Dig It?: The Culture and Importance of Blaxploitation Films

February 27th, 2015 | POSTED BY Benjamin Nason

“Am I Black enough for you?” Reverend Deke O’Mailey shouts to a crowd in Harlem. “Are you Black enough to hear me?” he asks back. It’s a moniker that becomes a self referential joke throughout the Blaxploitation movie Cotton Comes to Harlem, as other characters…

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