Author: Matthew Monagle
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China’s Box Office Champion and its Saving Power of Silly
It’s been sort of a weird week for the Chinese entertainment industry. On Wednesday, news broke that the China Television Drama Production Industry Association was…
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Gerard Butler, Middle-of-the-Road Movie Star
Count your blessings, America: today you can walk into almost any multiplex in the country and be treated to a pair of big-budget Gerard Butler…
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The Big Budgets and Bad Reviews of Alex Proyas
This past Sunday, director Alex Proyas took to Facebook to share his not-so flattering feelings on film critics. This was the second such directorial rant…
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Sorry Black Phillip, But Expectations Matter
A24 For the past few months, I’ve done my best to write about ideas related to cinephilia and topics of debate among film critics and…
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The Merc With a Mouth And Genre Indexicality
This weekend, like most of you, I popped into a local theater to catch Deadpool. And while I can’t speak for my critical brethren –…
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Romantic Comedies, Still Making Us Stupid After All These Years
This is an important week for all you Catholics and romantics out there. For some, this marks the first week of a Lent, a time…
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The Five Musicals I’d Greenlight For TV Faster Than Grease Lightning
On Sunday, as people around the country were enjoying FOX’s live version of Grease, all eyes ‘round these parts turned to the prospect of a…
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5 Films That Explore Zombies Through The Centuries
The first time I saw the trailer for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, I hated it. I was sitting alone in my apartment, streaming the…
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Cinephiles and Sports Fans Suffer From the Same Sickness
Illustration by Timothy McAuliffe/ESPNLast night I watched my Carolina Panthers trounce the Arizona Cardinals and advance to Super Bowl 50. As the post-game coverage continued,…