August 16, 2013
Film noir detectives may seem silly today, but there are still a few lessons they can teach us through their threats and hackneyed metaphors.
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Film noir detectives may seem silly today, but there are still a few lessons they can teach us through their threats and hackneyed metaphors.
Read MoreThese aren’t the connections between Star Wars and art you’re looking for.
Read MoreFrom Lovelace to Boogie Nights, Hollywood has celebrated porn just long enough to punish it.
Read MoreEven by today’s standards, the idiosyncratic work of filmmaker Samuel Fuller stands out as a progressive response to the narrow-mindedness of Hollywood.
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Does Joss Whedon’s take on Much Ado About Nothing appeal to Shakespeare buffs or just Buffy buffs?
Read MoreCleanflix is about the strange battle between the directors of the Mormon Church and the Director's Guild of America.
Read MoreDreams of a Life does a beautiful job of trying to honor one woman's life, despite its nightmarish end.
Read MoreIn my endless search to find the most depressing obscure documentary Netflix has to offer, I decided to dig deeper than a random film about the Holocaust or old episode of Frontline and check out Camp 14: Total Control Zone, directed by Marc Wiese, which is about a man who was born in a North Korean prison camp and escaped in his early 20s.
Read MoreLike many black belt TV nerds, I loved Veronica Mars, still tell friends to give it a shot (and feign surprise when they lose a weekend to compulsively watching the entire first season). I share a hope with the show's former star, Kristen Bell and tens of thousands of other nerds on Kickstarter that a Veronica Mars movie is always possible. In the past three hours, they've picked up over half a million dollars in financing.
Read MoreImitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Here are ten characters from today’s hit TV shows who take their cues from some classic literary characters.
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