Posts Tagged ‘L.A. Confidential’
Film Review – Legend
Janus the two-faced Roman God. The Taoist yin and yang. Nickelodeon’s CatDog. The human struggle has long been envisioned in terms of opposing-yet-intertwined forces. In Legend, writer-director Brian Helgeland’s dialectic envisions Tom Hardy as both sides of humanity’s conflicted co-dependence with itself. Tom Hardy –…
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Film Review – 42
There have been a lot of important events in the history of sports, but the biggest and also one of the significant events in American history, the breaking of the color barrier, is a story that needs to be told. Thanks to Academy Award-winning screenwriter…
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MacGuffin Audio Podcast #154
Spencer is joined by Nick Ahlers (Planned Brotherhood, The MacGuffin) and Brandon Jerwa (Shooters, BJ Shea’s Geek Nation). The News at 5: 1. Volunteer Ninjas (http://bit.ly/Nq0D1L) 2. Lindsay Lohan (http://bit.ly/Pkd9wg) 3. Entourage Movie (http://bit.ly/SESVnx) 4. Pacific Rim 3D (http://bit.ly/SF3c3h) 5. Bacon Number (http://bit.ly/PeCWba) Additionally, we…
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An Appreciation – L.A. Confidential
“Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush.” So says reporter Sid Hudgens (Danny DeVito) at the end each of his articles in the tabloid paper Hush-Hush. While Sid works as a supporting character in Curtis Hanson’s masterful crime drama L.A. Confidential (1997), his…
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