Author: Matthew Patches
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9 Actors Who Turned to Directing…Only to Make One Film
That Thing You Do! is the kind of movie only a man with a particular amount of clout can get made. An off-beat comedy about…
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8 Animated Characters Who Look Disturbingly Like Their Voice Actors
The redeeming quality of the Cars franchise has nothing to do with spectacular visuals, high-octane action or universal bathroom humor. No, when it comes to…
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12 Shorts That Grew Into Feature-Length Films
These big films started small before hitting the cineplexes.
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8 Homages That Come Close To Being Rip-Offs
From first glance, J.J. Abrams’s latest, Super 8, looks like an unbridled homage to ’70s and ’80s era Spielberg movies, complete with kids getting into…
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Sticking Around After the Movie: 12 Notable Post-Credit Sequences
The 3rd Swing, the Accounting Assistant and the Lead Greensman couldn’t be happier for the resurgence of the after credits stinger. Finally, rightful dues can…
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8 Iconic Movie Rules To Live By
Few scenes in movies are as satisfying as a character confronting a rule.
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7 Pieces of Post-Graduation Wisdom You Can Learn from Movies
“I want to say one word to you. Just one word: plastics.” Apparently half-drunk, distant-relatives looooove The Graduate – or at least think that that…
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Interview: Panos Cosmatos Takes Us Back to the Past to the Future in ‘Beyond the Black Rainbow’
Panos Cosmatos’s first film Beyond the Black Rainbow, which premiered at last week’s Tribeca Film Festival in New York, is like nothing you’ve ever seen.…
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14 Variant Logos That Prove Even Studios Enjoy Having a Little Fun
Studio logos are an iconography all their own, but nothing puts a grin on my face like a spiffy send-up of a traditional company emblem…
