Hollywood
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Movie Trailer Soundtracks Are Keeping Me Cool
How Hollywood is staving off my musical obsolescence through movie trailers. According to the experts, I am in the waning days of my musical relevance.…
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Why So Few Horror Movies Have Good Endings
Proof that sticking the landing is harder than it looks. Elmore Leonard’s 1990 novel Get Shorty is one of the best books about the movies, not…
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Make Marvel Movies Great Again
An evolution against the status quo is needed. There’s something vaguely familiar about each new Marvel feature. Whether it is the down on his luck protagonist…
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The Movie Franchises That Died in 2016
Cue the sad song, because it’s In Memoriam time. Cinema as a whole is alive and well, but if there is one aspect of the movies…
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Deadpool 2’s Director Search Has Found Its Frontrunner
February is basically equivalent to the graveyard shift of movie releases where movies released in this time typically flop or are totally forgotten about come…
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When Movies Try to Walk in Others’ Shoes They Always Step in Shit
Hopefully the empathic “[blank] like me” movies are gone forever. There is a difference between walking in someone else’s shoes and leading a march in an…
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Creative Differences: What Are They?
Are They Bigger Than A Breadbox? Proving permanently that life comes at you fast and that its twists and turns are truly stranger than fiction,…
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The State of The Oscar Race Following The New York Film Festival
Analysis of the awards prospects of NYFF premieres and favorites. The New York Film Festival might not immediately bring the Oscar race to mind the…
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Mark Duplass and Alex Lehmann on the Devastating Sentiment of Blue Jay
The writer/star and first-time director discuss their intricately emotional new film. Mark Duplass is responsible for creating some of the most interesting films in independent cinema’s…