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MacGuffin Roundtable #1 – I Wanna Hold Your Hand
The premiere episode of the MacGuffin Roundtable. In this segment the MacGuffin crew team up to discuss I Wanna Hold Your Hand, from director Robert Zemeckis. This episode can be played online via the flash player below or it can be downloaded from here. It…
READ MOREIntro To Noir
Brandi and Allen discuss noir in honor of SIFF Cinema’s Noir City series. In this piece they discuss the origins, characteristics of noir, important movies, and its influence on modern cinema.
READ MOREOscar’s Crimes – Hitchcock
All Points Bulletin: Be on the lookout for a small, bald, gold man. He is 13 and 1/2 inches tall, weighs 8.5 lbs, sexual organs seem to be absent, tends to stand very still, constantly wielding a crusader’s sword, and is made of gold plated…
READ MOREBird Watching – Mary Lambert’s “Pet Sematary”
Because February is Women in Horror month (you can get lots of information on that here), I’ll be devoting the month’s Bird Watching columns to horror films. As a big horror fan, and as someone who pays a lot of attention to female-directed films, I’m…
READ MOREOscar’s Crimes – Best Picture of 1998
All Points Bulletin: Be on the lookout for a small, bald, gold man. He is 13 and 1/2 inches tall, weighs 8.5 lbs, sexual organs seem to be absent, tends to stand very still, constantly wielding a crusader’s sword, and is made of gold plated…
READ MOREBird Watching – Susanne Bier’s “Brothers”
Bird Watching is a new column that will appear on Mondays, in which I’ll discuss films that were directed or written by women. I’ve only seen two of Susanne Bier‘s films, but I’m prepared to call her one of my new favorite directors. It was…
READ MOREPreview – SFFSFF at Cinerama
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Film Festival, affectionately known as SFFSFF (say it “siff siff”) returns to the Cinerama theater in Seattle this weekend. The sixth annual event, jointly sponsored by the Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum and Seattle International Film Festival, will feature…
READ MOREInterview – Danny Boyle – 127 Hours
When it comes to the whole of his body of work it is apparent that Danny Boyle’s career is one ripe with diversity. Never allowing his self to be pigeonholed as any sort of genre director all the while contributing influential movies to genre filmmaking,…
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