Author: Jacob Oller
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Hold Your Breath: The Best Action Scenes of 2017
Watch and try to remember to inhale sometimes. We’ve shown you the best movies of the year in video form and we’ve shown you the…
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‘The Ornithologist’s Beautifully Blasphemous Art References
Heavenly reflections of some great paintings. A loose retelling of the life of Saint Anthony of Padua, The Ornithologist is not afraid to muck around…
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Brushing Up On Conversation with the ‘Before’ Trilogy
Some of the talkingest films ever made (that weren’t even made by Quentin Tarantino) teach us how to talk better.
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Dramedy In Motion: Blending Genre With ‘Atlanta’
Donald Glover makes genre collisions look easy. Sometimes the meshing of genres is an inevitable development of a show over time. It’s how Game of…
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2017: A Year In Movie Trailers
Trailers are the best parts of some movies and this is the best of the best. Most end-of-year videos highlight the absolute pinnacle of industry…
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Seriously Screwy: The History and Impact of the Screwball Comedy
It Happened One Night welcomed a new subgenre to the screen. In 1934, the grand tradition of genre added a slightly mad augmentation to one…
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An Academic Analysis of the Slasher and ‘It Follows’
More than a killer soundtrack, It Follows is classic slasher. One of the best movies of its year, It Follows was a stunning depiction of…
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The Thrift Store Palette of ‘Napoleon Dynamite’
These colors are washed-out and washed-up. The cinematography of most indie films values practicality over all else. Your budget is small, your schedule is hurried.…
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The Best Film-Ranking Video of 2017 is Here
Our rankings may be correct, but this video is the real winner. David Ehrlich (our friends at IndieWire’s senior film critic) makes an annual video…
