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‘Jeremiah Johnson’ Hollywood’s Most Beautiful – and Saddest – Western

Jeremiah Johnson Directed by Sydney Pollack Written by Edward Anhalt and John Milius 1972, The Western, at its creative and commercial peak – the late 1960s-early 1970s – proved itself an astoundingly pliable genre. It could be molded to deal with topical subject matter like racism (Skin Game, 1971), feminism (The Ballad of Josie, 1967), …

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Is ‘Liberal’ Hollywood to Blame for America’s Gun Culture?

On December 14, 2012, a young man named Adam Lanza broke into a primary school and fatally shot 26 people in the small village of Sandy Hook, Connecticut. Twenty of them were children, aged 6 or 7. On that day, no matter where I went or what I did, I couldn’t stop thinking about the …

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Red Dawn (João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata, 2011)

Alvorada Vermelha – Red Dawn Directed by João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata 28 minutes, 2011 A documentary on a meat market in Macao evokes question of life, death and morality. Opening with a high heeled shoe in foreground in a presentation of the mundane, we are introduced to our world under the …

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‘Red Dawn’ has an impressive cast, but is otherwise sloppy

Red Dawn Directed by Dan Bradley Written by Carl Ellsworth and Jeremy Passmore USA, 2012 It may be fitting for a movie about American teenagers rising up against an evil foreign military to be juvenile, but that doesn’t make Red Dawn any more palatable. This remake of the 1984 film best known now as the …

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‘Red Dawn’ remake feels positively regressive

Red Dawn Directed by Dan Bradley Written by Carl Ellsworth and Jeremy Passmore USA, 2012 Apparently, the original script for the 2012 remake of John Milius’ 1984 Red Dawn intended the invading forces to be Chinese, but MGM changed it to be North Koreans in post-production so as to not offend the ever-growing Chinese market; …

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Fantastic Fest 2012: ‘Red Dawn’ is if anything, entertaining

Red Dawn Directed by Dan Bradley Screenplay by Carl Ellsworth and Jeremy Passmore 2012, USA Jed Eckert (Chris “Thor” Hemsworth) returns home from service in Afghanistan to Spokane, Washington. His father (Brett Cullen) is the sheriff in town, and his brother, Matt (Josh Peck), is the maverick high school quarterback. The morning after his return …

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