Author: Scott Beggs
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‘Layover’ Review: A Beautiful Antidote for Big Budget Fatigue
Meydenbauer Entertainment The prevailing optimism tells us that whenever the Hollywood studio system is underserving an audience or an entire genre, indie filmmakers will appear…
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The Possibility of a Post-Plot Twist Era
20th Century Fox Spoilers for Gone Girl follow. Yes, I get the irony of that. Why do I need a spoiler warning when I’m about to argue…
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A Short Film Horrifyingly Shares the Rules of a Revenge Porn Manifesto
Christina Amundsen/The Current We’re teaming with The Current for the next two months to deliver 10 short films from 10 different directors, focused on social…
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Watch a Sharp Video Essay Break Down What David Fincher Doesn’t Do
https://medium.com/media/25dbf562bfaf2db384ac344bbf78a23d/href The great Tony Zhou of Every Frame a Painting has returned with a new video which breaks down David Fincher’s techniques, specifically the things…
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Nacho Vigalondo Accidentally Made a Seriously Goofy Movie About The Fappening
Cinedigm When Open Windows was making the festival rounds, it played like an increasingly crazy kidnapping yarn where all the action happens on a single…
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A Cell Phone Gets In the Way of an Important Conversation in This Short Film
Maj-Britt La Cour/The Current We’re teaming with The Current for the next two months to deliver 10 short films from 10 different directors, focused on social…
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The Must See Movies of October Ranked in Order of Anticipation
Fox Searchlight Hopefully you got all of your exercising in last month because October is determined to plant your ass in a theater seat for…
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A Little Boy Does a Dangerous Job in This Timely Short Film
Josh Soskin This summer the immigration crisis hit a feverish high with tens of thousands of women and children crossing the border illegally in search…
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‘Gone Girl’ Review: Clear Eyes, Cold Heart
Twentieth Century Fox Gone Girl is not about love. It’s not about marriage or even about a missing person. It has all of those elements, but…