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Lip Service: The Top 10 Movie Catchphrases
The obligatory movie catchphrase…memorable golden dialogue for the cinematic soul. What film fan does not enjoy reciting and repeating their favorite movie quotes? After all, there are countless catchphrases in films–some are famous, some are familiar, some are obscure. Still, paraphrasing movie quips has become an art onto itself? So what are your all-time movie […] More
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New on Video: ‘Men in War’
“‘Men in War,’ from 1957, contains much of what makes Anthony Mann a distinct filmmaker, and reveals much of what makes the war film its own unique form of motion picture.” More
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It’s Not TV: HBO, The Company That Changed Television: The Movie Duels
14) The Movie Duels Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something. Thomas Edison There’s a story that on the November night in 1972 when HBO went on the air for the very first time to a few hundred subscribers in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Gerald Levin – then HBO’s top programmer and […] More
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No Statute of Limitations For Spoilers
*Exclaimer: Please don’t read this if you haven’t seen Inception, The Empire Strikes Back, Planet of the Apes, The Wizard of Oz, Saw, Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, The Usual Suspects or The Sixth Sense – As a probable testament to my poor academic acumen, I cannot, in good memory, recall the particulars of the situation […] More
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The “Gray Ones” Fade To Black
“How come you only show us clips from movies none of us ever heard of?” She was 30, a single mom who’d admirably gone back to school for a business degree to better things for her and her family. She’d taken my film appreciation class as an elective, a break from the grind of her […] More
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How The Blockbuster Ruined Hollywood
The big-budget (usually summer) blockbuster is the financial cornerstone of the American motion picture industry, and has been for much of the last 35 years or so. In all its forms – action/adventure, suspense, Western, war story, horror, science fiction, fantasy, et al – the big budget thriller’s earning power is unmatched by any other […] More
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‘Supercut – Spoiler Alert’
Well it’s a new day and here is yet another montage, the second in two days. Lucky for us, it’s just as great. Yesterday we showed you A Brief History of Title Design. This time however, it’s the work of youtuber Hatinhand. He brings us a montage sequence of amazing movie ending spoilers. Overall there […] More