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Childhood Memories: Colin Biggs
The first time I went to the movies was in 1994 at the age of five. It was the first outing that my sister and I were privy to that didn’t involve coloring mats, kid’s menus, or a playground. This was something adults got to do. This was something magical. The Regal theatre didn’t appear to […] More
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Laurent Durieux’s Incredible Poster Art for ‘The Godfather’
The famous artist Laurent Durieux has tackled one of the greatest and most critically acclaimed films of all time: Francis Ford Coppola‘s The Godfather. The officially licensed poster has been put together by Odd City Entertainment and is on sale at www.oddcitystore.com. More
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Hatchet for a Honeymoon: Marriage and the Screen
Last month David Fincher’s Gone Girl made a smash at the box office. As if plugged directly into the Zeitgeist, it seemed as if everyone had a take on the film’s views on gender, the media and marriage. Gone Girl was a sensation that turned the camera inward, revealing our discomfort with the institution of […] More
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New on Video: ‘Once Upon a Time in America’
Once Upon a Time in America is a gangster film of the highest order, and, at the same time, it recalls so many of its predecessors More
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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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The Murky Induction Into ‘The United States of Murder Inc.’ #1
The United States of Murder Inc. #1 Story by Brian Michael Bendis Art by Michael Avon Oeming Cover by Michael Avon Oeming, David Mack, David Marquez,[more…] Publisher: Marvel Icon 2014 When Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming get together, it’s murder. Powers #1 began so long ago with the death of Retro Girl and The United […] More
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A Feast For The Eyes: Famous Film Eateries
Locations in films are rarely the thing an average filmgoer remembers after watching a film; it’s always about the story, character and the lines they say that later form the proverbial ‘word of mouth.’ However, when you think of great confrontations, conversations and simple exchanges, they always take place in a nice public setting – […] More
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‘The Godfather’ kicks off another Cinemark Classics Series tonight
Consider this an offer you shouldn’t refuse. The nationwide Cinemark movie theater chain is kicking off another Classics Series tonight, April 10, with one of the all-time classics, a film whose iconography is endless: 1972’s The Godfather. Cinemark will also be showing such films as Alien, Blazing Saddles, and The Graduate over the next five […] More
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5 Mind Boggling Casting Decisions (that nearly happened)
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director’s point of view. – Steven Spielberg Ah, the joys of hindsight, such as they are. It is so easy to look back on what came about from the small decisions coming together to form an unforgettable whole, and laugh at those […] More
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Debating ‘The Searchers’ and its place in the Western canon
As Sound on Sight’s Western month reaches its conclusion, two of the hosts of your favorite Disney movie podcast, Mousterpiece Cinema, Josh Spiegel and Gabe Bucsko met in the show’s vaunted and secretive HQ to discuss and debate what many people would claim is the greatest Western of all time: the 1956 John Ford film The […] More
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Eight Counts of Grand Theft Cinema
We love crime movies. We may go on and on about Scorsese’s ability to incorporate Italian neo-realism techniques into Mean Streets (1973), the place of John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle (1950) in the canon of postwar noir, The Godfather (1972) as a socio-cultural commentary on the distortion of the ideals of the American dream blah […] 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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