Articles Tagged with #movies
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Stories
Great Oscar Gaffes
Every year we watch the nominations unfold, the awards change hands, and the speeches drag on. But we miss all the inappropriate jokes, drunk punches, and other such un-televisables. Here’s the moments Oscar wished he’d never seen.
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Opinions
Die Softly
Action movies may seem old hat these days, but they had to start somewhere. We go back to the pre-Schwarzenegger years, when a movie audience thirsty for speed and thrills could only turn to My Dinner With André.
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Personalities
Bright Nights, Big Mountains
The Sundance Film Festival may have a hard time maintaining its indie credibility, but as a magnet for celebrities there is little doubt about its powers. After a few days of film in Park City,our writer looks back.
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New York, New York
French Film, French Film
A New York filled with memories. A New York filled with Mallomars. Mallomars filled with, er, you get the picture.
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Opinions
Dear Hollywood
Hollywood. Is it worth the trouble? A letter to the big “H” to ask why it’s been acting like this.
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Opinions
Crowning the Action
Mel Gibson’s forthcoming movie, The Passion, has come under a great deal of fire, especially for something that nobody’s even seen yet.
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Opinions
Freddy and Jason and Reese and Julia
Ahh, movie sequels: the perpetual bliss of knowing what happens next. But what if Hollywood runs out of old films for remakes, prequels, and crossovers? A plan that will save the movie industry.
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Opinions
Copyrights and Wrongs
Despite its grumblings (and litigation) to the contrary, the entertainment industry benefits from copyright expiration: Take, for instance, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
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Opinions
Unloading on The Matrix Reloaded
The first Matrix was cool, but this new one needed a bit more work before they let it out of the gate. An open letter to the Wachowski brothers.
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Opinions
Mess With the Bull, You’ll Get the Horns
The recent hazing at Glenbrook North High School and that other story about disregard for journalistic propriety can find judgment in the college classroom.
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New York, New York
An Extremely Incomplete Taxonomy of Cinematic New Yorks
New York has faced the apocalypse many times. Unfortunately, it’s usually Bruce Willis who saves us. A report on the many versions of the five boroughs produced in film, and why Nora Ephron lives alone.
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Personalities
To the Teen Beat of His Own Drummer
Maybe you only know him as “the other one” from Weird Science, but Ilan Mitchell-Smith is a former actor turned real human being (and Ph.D. candidate, no less).