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An Appreciation – Annie Hall
Woody Allen begins his film Annie Hall (1977) with a monologue in which he addresses the audience directly. Within this speech, he describes a joke that he first attributes to Groucho Marx, saying that he would never want to be a part of a club…
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MacGuffin Roundtable #7 – Mallrats
The MacGuffin crew discuss Mallrats, from director Kevin Smith and starring Jeremy London and Jason Lee. This episode can be played online via the flash player below or it can be downloaded from here. It is available on iTunes, Zune, and Stitcher.
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3D – A Qualified Defense
Amongst cineastes, be they as famous as Roger Ebert, or we mere mortals on this website, it has become de rigueur to trash the new trend of 3D film. The industry is pushing everyone toward putting on sometimes unwieldy glasses while staring at a potentially…
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What We’re Watching – 5/11/11
I’ve got a small confession; I cheated before compiling this list. I thought describing my usual viewing habits (“saw Die Hard for the 1,534th time—still awesome”) would become pretty tedious, so I’ve tried to find a few things that I’ve wanted to watch for a…
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Bird Watching – Lone Scherfig’s “Italian for Beginners”
I had never known anything about the film Italian for Beginners, except that I remember seeing it in the video store back in the Blockbuster days and immediately dismissing it as a rental possibility based on the hideous box art alone. This is shallow of…
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An Appreciation – Dr. Strangelove
“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here, this is the War Room!” What a strange world it must have been to live in during the years following WWII. It was a time of constant fear, doubt, and anxiety. With the fall of Nazi Germany, other countries…
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What We’re Watching – 5/4/11
This is my first post for the “What We’re Watching” column. The films I end up watching are an amalgam of what’s going on at that point in time. Did a new DVD come out? Is a sequel or remake coming out soon? If the…
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Is the movie poster dead?
Recently, when I was walking down the street, a bus passed me. It was plastered with advertisements for the Martin Lawrence integrity-stripping franchise entry Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son. The poster looked terrible, and I’m sure that’s a pretty accurate description of the film,…
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