Saturday, November 21st, 2009
Film noir, as the French would come to call it, was a unique byproduct of artistic and sociological forces that had its start in America in the early...
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
If you walk into the new Coen Brothers movie a few minutes late, you may think you’re in the wrong theater. A Serious Man opens with an extended...
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It’s one of the stranger titles in recent years, and the movie more than lives up to it in the strangeness department. The Men Who Stare at...
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That Leo McCarey does not enjoy a more substantial reputation today is one of the cinema’s greater puzzles. Let’s take a look at his...
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John Sturges was a reliable craftsman, a solid pro who made entertaining and intelligent action movies across a variety of genres. I would stop short...
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Orgasm Inc. is a movie about that most mysterious and elusive of phenomenon: female pleasure. Countless books have been written about it. Talk shows...
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When Peter Bogdanovich was offered the chance to make a feature film by B-movie king Roger Corman, there were two stipulations. The first was that he...
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In the dinner party of life, Michael Moore is the uninvited guest who spends the evening hogging the hors d’œvres and shanghaiing everyone...
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Dead Creek is a 2,858-acre area of swampland located in Addison County, Vermont, near the southern tip of Lake Champlain. It’s the perfect...
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Here’s where it starts to get difficult. The fourth installment in a nine-part series examining the best films of each decade from the 1920s to...
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