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April Showers: Like Crazy
waterworks continue most nights at 11. Here's abstew on Like Crazy When Like Crazy played at Sundance in 2011, it became an instant hit. It even managed to win both the Grand Jury Prize for Drama and a...
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Hit Me With Your Best Shot. What's Next?
I hope you'll join us tonight when we celebrate The Letter (1940) and I hope you enjoyed the first three episodes of Best Shot this year covering forgetful lovers, violent cops, and disco freaks. If...
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Channing "Gambit" Tatum and Your Favorite Superheroes
I've been quite blocked today (apologies) so I'd like to turn the time over to you for an open discussion. With news coming that Channing Tatum would love to play Gambit in a movie (poor Taylor Kitsch....
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Seasons of Bette: The Letter (1940)
Multi-tasking again. Herewith a new episode of three recurring series: Seasons of Bette, "Introducing..." and Hit Me With Your Best Shot in which I, Nathaniel, refuse to show you Bette Davis's face....
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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Visual Index ~ The Letter (1940)
William Wyler's The Letter (1940) was nominated for seven Oscars in 1940 and remains a compelling example of two essential noir staples: dramatic lighting and the art of the femme fatale. I was...
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DiCaprio + Iñárritu = ???
I am not, in any way according to the Internet, a Leonardo DiCaprio fan. Never mind that I saw him first and was proselytizing about his gift for at least ten years after seeing the double whammy of...
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Yes No Maybe So: "Maps to the Stars"
Yesterday two new trailers appeared for David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars. I'm not embedding them specifically because I can't find sharp images (the main one floating around seems like a bad stolen...
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A Year with Kate: The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Episode 16 of 52 as Anne Marie screens all of Katharine Hepburn's films in chronological order. In which Katharine Hepburn wins it all back and then some. For Classic Hollywood stars whose images so...
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Eisner Award Nominees
The Eisner Awards, the "Oscars of Comics" have announced their nominations for the current season (they follow more of a Tony Awards timetable) and the results are heavy on Image comics with Marvel...
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Drag Race: The Sounds of My Fury
Here, in picture form, is why I've been unable to function whenever I tried to write about RuPaul's Drag Race somehow the blurry screenshot seemed appropriate so i didn't try again Laganja Estranja's...
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Strictly 4 My L.I.N.K.A.Z.
The Wire Joe & Mark predict the Tony nominees in the play categories. Could Audra McDonald win a sixth Tony? (The nominations are only two weeks away)Defamer Paul Walker's incomplete scenes from...
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April Showers: Pulp Fiction
the waterworks continue Will you give me oral pleasure? I was casually skimming through Pulp Fiction the other day and watched scenes from the Bruce Willis portion. It's the storyline that's easiest to...
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TCM: The Sublime Maureen O'Hara
Our new contributor Diana D Drumm reporting on the TCM Festival which recently concluded Maureen O'Hara introducing "How Green Was My Valley" at TCM 2014 Even at 93, Maureen O’Hara is still sublime,...
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Panel Culture: The Winter Soldier
I had the pleasure of returning as guest on the Panel Culture podcast. It's a weekly comics podcast but they do movie episodes every once in a while and this one is on Captain America: The Winter...
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Seasons of Bette: Dark Victory (1939)
Seasons of Bette had a headache last week but is feeling much better now, thank you. Herewith, your catch-up episode on Dark Victory (1939) it was the ghastliest feeling, everything went fuzzy. Fallen...
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Cannes '14 line-up announced
Tim here. It's Christmas morning, everybody: the Cannes Film Festival announced its line-up today for this year's edition, running from May 14-25. Opening NightGrace of Monaco (dir. Olivier Dahan;...
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100th Anniversary: Cabiria
Tim here, asking the most burning question of them all: who’s ready to talk about Italian silent film?!?! (Blogging pro-tip: italics and interrobangs make people excited to discuss things that they are...
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TCM: Anna Kendrick ♥s "The Women" (So do we.)
It's Diana's last report from the TCM Film Festival which closed this weekend. One more from Anne Marie is coming up and it's a wrap. Take it away, Diana... Ben & Anna Kendrick at The Women...
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How I Feel / How I Wish I Felt
As illustrated by Bradley Cooper. Literally this time since I'm so hungover. Talk amongst yourselves as I convalesce. What's on your cinematic mind?
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Yes No Maybe So: "Jersey Boys"
From Tommy Lee Jones directing himself and The Swank we turn to another far more accomplished actor-turned-director. Clint Eastwood has won four Oscars in his career from two films (Unforgiven &...
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