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Businesses Keeping Customers Connected Under Quarantine -
Services like online gym classes and 'cloud clubbing' have surfaced to keep those under lockdown feeling connected.
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Hollow Man … is a Guilty Movie Pleasure! w/ ‘Bombs Away’ Podcast Guys! - #KevinBacon #HollowMan #GuiltyMoviePleasures On this week’s Guilty Movie Pleasures… Ben Begley and Jesse McIntosh are joined by the dynamic duo from the ...5 years ago
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Best of 2019: The 13 Best Films of the Year - by Tony Dayoub It's Oscar Day! No predictions. Here, for your consideration, are my top films of 2019 followed by the winners of the respective polls I p...5 years ago
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Parasite Blu-ray Giveaway - On Friday, I’ll choose one winner from my Patreon supporters to get a free Blu-ray copy of Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainm...5 years ago
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cinema obscura: Dorothy Malone's "Too Much, Too Soon" (1958) - Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis. There are actresses about whom enough can't be said. Hepburn and Davis are inarguably two of them. And then there are ...5 years ago
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Exciting Awards Season Events Added! - Like the rest of Los Angeles, we at the Cinematheque are fully immersed in awards season. In addition to our usual repertory screenings, we've added a s...6 years ago
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1/16 Make My Day at the Wex - January 16, I’ll be giving a book talk at the Wexner Center in Columbus and introducing a screening of the 1986 movie River’s Edge. Read more…6 years ago
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430 - From Broadway to Hollywood - John and guest host Aline Brosh McKenna welcome writer/showrunner Tim Federle (High School Musical: The Musical: The Series) to talk about his path from ...6 years ago
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Ghostbusters The Supernatural Spectacular (1984) by Richard Mueller - The I Read Movies Halloween episode features a look at the 1984 novelization of Ghostbusters by Richard Mueller.6 years ago
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Miracle - Kurt Russell's Accent Doesn't Disappoint - Hello again, dear listeners! Thanks to Michael for suggesting that we cover the 2004 Gavin O'Connor film *Miracle*, starring Kurt Russell and Patricia Cl...6 years ago
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Summer break - Hey everyone, For the first time since I started this blog in 2012, I will be taking a break! See you back on August 22nd. Best, Kinofrau6 years ago
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3D Street Artists Whose Work Is Sure To Amaze (Or Induce Acrophobia) - 1. EDGAR MUELLER Born and raised in Germany, Edgar Mueller is considered one of the world’s most recognised and acclaimed street artists. Since 1998, he ha...6 years ago
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What to do if ICE shows up at your door? - ¿Qué hacer si ICE aparece en su puerta? - Believe it or not, when it comes to ICE agents, you have rights. Here's some advice should you have the misfortune of encountering them. - Lo creas o no, c...6 years ago
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LIT WINDOW - My creative wing. A selection of work follows. I WISH YOU WOULD (2020, 26'25") is a short film about Stanley Strunk and his first, rocky day out in the...6 years ago
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Top 5 Movies Based on True Stories - Dragons, zombie walkers and mythical super heroes are all integral parts of successful modern films and TV shows. Despite the allure of these characters ...6 years ago
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Black Man Talk: Us: Stunning With Scissors - by Odie "Odienator" Henderson and Steven Boone *(The following is a conversation between Big Media Vandalism founder Steven Boone and Big Media Vandalism...6 years ago
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Everybody Knows (Todos lo saben Spain-France-Italy 2018) - Everybody Knows opened the Cannes competition in 2018 to mixed reviews (although better than usual for the opening film) and it has taken some time to get ...6 years ago
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All Inclusive – Fabien Onteniente - It’s sad to see actors of the calibre of Thierry Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko and Maiwenn on screen in a film with as little merit as All Inclusive – the l...6 years ago
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The Binge Movie Podcast: The Best (and Most Disappointing) of 2018 - On this episode, Rebecca and Jason sift through the wreckage of 2018’s largely unremarkable crop of theatrical releases, name their (intentionally overla...7 years ago
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Man vs. Movies #118 - Goodbye For Now - In the final episode of Man vs. Movies James, Callum and Nathan say farewell. Together they look back at the ups and downs of the show, how far it has co...7 years ago
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Merry New Year! -7 years ago
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WINTER OF DISCONTENT: Puppet on a Chain - In an otherwise balanced article for *The Spectator* on the Wilma Montesi murder case*, Alexander Chancellor refers to Piero Piccioni as “a sleazy jazz ...7 years ago
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A Farewell to Ferdy - By Roderick Heath Long ago, in the dimly-remembered time of legend and chivalry that was 2006, my friend Marilyn Ferdinand asked me if I wanted to contribu...7 years ago
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120 - It's Halloween!(Almost) & The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad - Just a note: The guys didn't realize what day this was going up. Their bad. Probably mostly Seth's. This episode has it all. A One Star Amazon Review, The...7 years ago
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Website hax0red - For the last month I’ve been trying to fix this stupid website hack and I think I’ve finally got it. Really sorry about that. Unless you love spam surveys,...7 years ago
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CANADA ON SCREEN VIDEO GUIDES - In honor of Canada’s sesquicentennial in 2017, Canada On Screen was the Country’s most ambitious year long retrospective. The free programme featured mov...7 years ago
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Exploring Captivity: Some films to look out for at this year's DOKer Festival - DOKer is taking place in April this year and the opening film will be shown this evening (April 13th). A festival which sees a refocus back on films fro...7 years ago
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Jean Harlow, Mary Dees, and SARATOGA - I watched SARATOGA again last night for the first time in years and still found it very depressing. It is so sad to watch Harlow, clearly weak and listless...7 years ago
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Suspended Lives, Revenant Images. On Harun Farocki’s Film Respite by Sylvie Lindeperg - Note: Suspended Lives, Revenant Images. On Harun Farocki’s Film Respite was first published in Trafic, no. 70/2009 and is reprinted in Harun Farocki: Again...8 years ago
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Dunkirk and Militarism - Nicole and Spencer discuss the groundbreaking *Dunkirk*, war movies, and the nature of militarism vs. heroism. Nicole mentions this Slate article on how ...8 years ago
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A Female ‘Doctor Who’ Is Exactly What the Franchise Needed - “I want to tell the fans not to be scared by my gender. Because this is a really exciting time, and Doctor Who represents everything that’s exciting about ...8 years ago
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Cinematography: All That Heaven Allows - *ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS* (1955) *Director:* Douglas Sirk *Cinematographer:* Russell Metty One of the most beautifully shot films, I believe, is Douglas ...8 years ago
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Quick Takes: A Matter of Time - Is there a longer cut of *A Matter of Time* (1976) hiding somewhere in a vault in Italy, waiting to be restored? The last film from the masterful Vincen...8 years ago
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At 30, Merchant-Ivory's "Maurice" Has Only Gained in Power - Maurice is the overlooked middle child in Merchant Ivory's trio of E.M. Forster adaptations, sandwiched between the lighthearted mainstream hit A Room With...8 years ago
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STITCHER LAUNCHES SLATE OF ORIGINAL PODCASTS - *NEW YORK CITY* – Top podcast listening service Stitcher has launched a lineup of original podcast programming, with a handful of popular shows joining t...8 years ago
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Lev Kulidzhanov - Prestuplenie i nakazanie AKA Crime and Punishment (1969) - [image: 29f7c043f76a2bde437fd0d52a185152] Plot Synopsis This Russian adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment packs nearly every pivotal event fr...8 years ago
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2013--The Year in Review - 2013 was a fantastic year for movies. Its prime entry was the eventual winner of the Best Picture Oscar, British director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave-...8 years ago
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SOMEDAY THIS WAR'S GONNA END - *A second review requested by Patton with thanks for contributing twice to the Second Quinquennial Antagony & Ecstasy ACS Fundraiser.* How in the name of ...9 years ago
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The Best Wrestling Matches of 2016 (15-1) - Continuing from yesterday's post, read on as I count down my favorite wrestling matches of the year. 15. Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Naomichi Marufuji IWGP H...9 years ago
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Candy (1968) - *Ewa Aulin*, star of *Deadly Sweet* and *Death Laid an Egg*, plays the eponymous *Candy*; a naive, somewhat gormless, sexually accommodating teenager who...9 years ago
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De Grote Hoofdtelefoon Test met Giel Beelen - Video-verslag Cliënt: Bax-shop, NPO 3FM | Productie: Directorama The post De Grote Hoofdtelefoon Test met Giel Beelen appeared first on DIRECTORAMA | Pe...9 years ago
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The Razor's Edge - *Shenanigans*. Elliot Gould, Tom Skerritt, Donald Sutherland Those of you who think that movies are entirely a visual medium, and that the script is noth...9 years ago
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Project Completed – The Makino Mamoru Collection on the History of East Asian Film, 1863-2015 [Bulk Dates: 1920s-1990s] : A New Beginning of East Asian Film Studies and Beyond - The Makino Collection has now been fully arranged. This archive started with one book by Charlie Chaplin, discovered at a secondhand bookstore. This prov...9 years ago
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Deadpool Review - Hollywood is churning out superhero films like there’s no tomorrow and in an effort to keep the crowded comic book movie climate from turning stale and rep...9 years ago
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Top 10: 1995 - 1. Dead Man (Jarmusch) 2. Seven (Fincher) 3. Heat (Mann) 4. 12 Monkeys (Gilliam) 5. Safe (Haynes) 6. Crumb (Zwigoff) 7. Before Sunrise (Linklater) 8. Casi...9 years ago
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I wish I knew how to quit you, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu. - I'm generally not big on the idea of "giving up" on filmmakers. For one thing, it seems like kind of an empty gesture, like when I was younger and I'd ...10 years ago
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Podcast on R.W. Fassbinder - [image: Podcast on R.W. Fassbinder] submitted by /u/Risselada to r/fassbinder [link] [comments]10 years ago
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Saying Goodbye: The Last Entry - It is with much regret that I must call an end to my humble blogging efforts. After 345 entries, the first of which was May 11, 2007, I've decided to cal...10 years ago
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Netflix New Releases for May 5th, 2015 - Here's the full list of new Netflix DVD releases this week (detailed list): Selma, Against the Sun, Bad Asses on the Bayou, A Few Best Men, Love, Rosie, Mu...10 years ago
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Blindspot - "The Deer Hunter" and "Coming Home" - Whenever the blind spots of our history of film knowledge come up in conversation, one of the most common questions is "Why haven't you seen movie 'X' ye...10 years ago
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Born to Write - Finally started to read "*Gone Girl*," worried that the buzz about the movie would spoil all the famous surprises. As a half-assed student of the crime nov...11 years ago
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THE SOMETIMES UNCONSCIOUS WORLD OF AIMS AND METHODS - *The PRETTY LITTLE LIARS summer finale airs tonight, wrapping up the first half of season 5. How quickly time flies. I came across an interview I did **wit...11 years ago
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Some Notes On The Stand - I recently reread *The Stand* for no particular reason other than I felt like it. I'm honestly not sure how many time I've read it at this point, more ...11 years ago
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Bonus elephant goodness! - Just when we thought we were done with it… So the review of my submission I was waiting for, suspecting that the unfortunate party had been defeated? It’s ...11 years ago
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Inspector Bellamy - Claude Chabrol's final film, Inspector Bellamy, begins with a dedication and ends with a quote, and in between is one of the French master's most confoundi...12 years ago
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New Directors/New Films and Other "New" Stuff - As these posts have become less and less frequent, the number of links becomes more and more unwieldy - for which all due apologies. This latest round-up c...12 years ago
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My Comics Gone By - This year, with less time than I've ever had before, I read fewer books and more comics. Which means this is quite a long list. Its mainly mainstream - I d...13 years ago
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Happy 100th, Paramount! - As you may or may not know, this year (and this month) marks the 100th anniversary of Paramount Pictures. Being a Paramount employee, I am especially aware...13 years ago
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Trash, Art, And The Movies Podcast #12: The Good, The Bad, And The Uggie - Boy, Erin Fraser and I really tore Mel Brooks' Silent Movie a new one in this week's Trash, Art, and the Movies podcast. Which was totally not the result...13 years ago
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A Game Of Stones - *SPOILERS.* People are bagging in force on *The Hunger Games’* directorial choices, specifically the drunken cameraman style of filming. Director Gary Ro...13 years ago
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Ten Best Films I Saw in November - Saw such amazing films this month, hit gold. Not easy to cut some off this list. As always only first time viewings Wild at Heart (David Lynch) Raw Deal (A...14 years ago
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James Bond is Invincible - It's probably no surprise to anyone here that I'm a big fan of James Bond (even if he is a bit problematic -- especially in the much-beloved Connery films)...14 years ago
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Mr. Middlebrow, Esq. or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Pass the Bar - Hello, Internet. Yeah, it's been a while. Not much, how 'bout you? So, for those scoring along at home in their lucky souvenir programs, I sat for my state...14 years ago
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I'm Blogging Again..... - ...but not here. Not anymore. Check out my new blog CINEMEMORIES. A new year. A new blog. A fresh start. Hope to see you there.15 years ago
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SLEDGEHAMMER AND WHORE - This is the story of a Procedural. So I'm at a meeting with a producer the other day and he's pitching me a tv idea. As way of emphasizing why I need him a...15 years ago
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Land of the Giants No. 7 - *Nadia Gray, in a promo shot for "Night Without Stars" (1951).*15 years ago
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Scenes from the Morgue :: Year II - When the calendar flipped over from April to May this little endeavor of blognuttery reached it's second anniversary milestone. Again, with my moth-to-an-a...15 years ago
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2010 Oscars Live Blog - Welcome to the 2010 Oscars live blog. Keep hitting reload for all the latest updates. Techno, techno, techno, techno. 6:58AM – Istanbul/8:58PM – L.A. "Th...15 years ago
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THE ORPHAN (2009) - Day #445 Today brought a stark reminder that this place can be truly treacherous. Got carried away with excitement, I did, by a rare successful spell of h...15 years ago
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Answers to the Professor's Movie Quiz - One of my favorite film blogging traditions is the annual movie quiz with a funny title that Dennis hosts over at Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule. Th...16 years ago
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The Forgotten Movies: Russell Rouse's THE OSCAR (1966) - I’m probably not telling you anything you haven’t heard when I say that Russell Rouse’s 1966 film version of THE OSCAR is a howlingly bad movie. If you kno...16 years ago
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Race Withdrawl, and a movie review - Man oh man. It's been over 3 weeks now since my last race and i am in total withdrawl. The 15k wasn't gonna happen due to health and injury, and now I am s...17 years ago
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JOE BOB's SLEAZIEST: Press Review - No Sleaze, Please - *"NO SLEAZE, PLEASE"* September 22, 1990 | By Dan Webster, Staff Writer for The Spokesman Review | Original Source *Joe Bob Briggs says ‘check it out,’ ...35 years ago
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