Hollywood
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6 Filmmaking Tips from F. Gary Gray
Straight outta Hollywood, some advice on how to make it there.F. Gary Gray on the set of ‘Law Abiding Citizen’F. Gary Gray is a journeyman, a prolific…
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Decoding What It Means That Carrie Fisher Will “Appear” in ‘Star Wars: Episode IX’
Exploring a few possibilities.
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Animation as a Fallback
How ‘Smurfs,’ ‘Ghostbusters,’ ‘Ghost in the Shell’ and more are keeping their brands alive after live-action disappointments. As the live-action Hollywood version of Ghost in…
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When Obscure Movies Become More Obscured by Bad Remakes
Some fine original works are going even further out of style. Remakes, they tell us, do no harm to the original works. The first movie will…
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All That Hollywood Allows: Douglas Sirk’s Brilliant Melodramas
The European filmmaker directed a series of deceptively complex melodramas in the 1950s.
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The Tao of Nicolas Cage: Nic Cage Appreciation Day
Isn’t it time we have a whole day dedicated to celebrating all that is Nicolas Cage? “I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a…
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In Search of The Most Interesting Superhero Movie
An assessment of the remaining superhero movies of 2017. There’s a hornets nest to be rattled when it comes to comparing superhero movies in any context,…
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5 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Miss ‘Life’
Why Daniel Espinosa’s sci-fi horror is very much worth your time.
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Beyond The Meme: Revisiting ‘Scanners’
Scanning one of David Cronenberg’s most popular, most flawed films. Memory is a funny thing. Not funny, “haha,” so much, but funny in that hilariously terrifying…
