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Netflix Gives Women a New Home with Orange is the New Black

I was going to write about the new Paul Feig film The Heat and the unfair weight put on female driven comedies to prove that yes, women are funny. In fact, when I heard of The Heat, the first thing that I thought was “Oh yeah, like FEDS.” FEDs (Daniel Goldberg, 1988) is the only …

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Solid and funny ‘The Heat’ has a good balance between Bullock and McCarthy

The Heat Directed by Paul Feig Written by Katie Dippold USA, 2013 Melissa McCarthy is at a precipice in her career, at a point where audiences can embrace or reject her for her fierce, intimidating comic presence. Earlier this year, as one of the stars of Identity Thief, a grotesque and toxic Planes, Trains, and …

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10 non-blockbuster films we’re looking forward to this summer

The summer season has, over the past few decades, become synonymous with movie blockbuster season, as studios have found the months of May to August to contain the most profitable release dates for big-budget tentpole features, leading to the summer of recent years being filled with superhero films, big budget CGI features, and other tentpole …

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