Essays
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2014 Oscar Prediction: Best Supporting Actor
The Best Supporting Actor category at this year’s Academy Awards is a tough race, because there isn’t a single nominee who doesn’t deserve to be…
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2014 Oscar Prediction: Best Supporting Actress
Every year, the Academy Awards kick into two extremely important categories quite early, swiftly doling out Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actors statuettes before…
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A Boy Answers a Troubled Woman’s Online Request to Be Murdered in This Powerful Short Film
Why Watch? Most of the time, movies with great concepts pull their punches as if knocking out their audience would be one step too far.…
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Zombies Remember Their Crimes After Being Cured In This Stark Short Film
Why Watch? First “The Infected,” now “The Cured.” Almost all zombie movies feel like a first act, which is probably why several have found success…
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Fade Out: Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967–2014)
It is with tremendous sadness that I report that one of our generation’s greatest actors has left the world’s stage. Philip Seymour Hoffman was found…
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Paging Dr. Strangelove or: Why We Still Love The Bomb After 50 Years
To celebrate the film’s 50th anniversary, film critic Brian Salisbury revisits Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove.
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A Couple Decides to Have Sex or Break Up in This Uncomfortably Real Short
Why Watch? David and Kate are in a rut. A kind of ridiculous, awkward, completely banal moment in their relationship where conversations about frozen yogurt…
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Heartbreak: A Painfully Personal Short Film Shares A Life In Pictures
Why Watch? There’s a backstory to T.J. Martin and Dan Lindsay’s My Favorite Picture of You, but I don’t want to know it. There’s an…
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All You Need Is a Girl and a Gun In This Insanely Cool Short Film
Why Watch? A grimacing woman drawing a gun from her coat pocket, a Spanish singer leaving lipstick on a poker card, and a descent into…