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It's another big week for new film releases, and this week we have several Oscar and Golden Globes nominees and winners, the film debut of a stage actress who would go on to become most known for portraying a maid ...
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We'll start this off with some full disclosure -- Les Misérables is my favorite musical, hands down. I was probably a fan before I ever saw the show because I worked at a record store back in the day when ...
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Putting yourself in your art is hardly unique or unusual or even unexpected -- it’s what often drives the work in the first place after all. Certainly Spielberg has put himself in movies in different ways, and even does that ...
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Ah, the typical French film, so full of shots of French city life, plenty of adultery, and a deep, lingering sense of terrible sadness. Is it any coincidence that they popularized the idea of ennui? Going into a French film ...
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The first week of February across the past seven decades was not a great one ... unless you were a kid. Only a handful of new series lasted more than one season. 1953 was the most successful with a decades-long ...
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The Broadway musical Something Rotten! opened on April 22, 2015, garnered ten Tony Awards nominations (winning one for Supporting Actor Christian Borle) and for some reason closed after just 742 performances on January 1, 2017. I first became aware of ...
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In the realm of ‘indie’ movies there are a subcategory of films that are ‘foreign indie’ movies, which are the same sort of genres except with unique cultural signifiers of the countries of origins. Many of these indie movies focus ...
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Is it fair to compare a piece of art to the artist's career at large? Sure, it's good, but it's no Mona Lisa. He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel on his back. It doesn't have the same intensity ...
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This was a huge week for new releases across the last century with shorts, animation, documentaries, Westerns, The Three Stooges, a silent version of The Blue Lagoon, big breaks for Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, and more. Much, much more ...
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The past three decades were the only ones to produce new TV series this week with 1993 and 2013 having some of the more notable programs, and two of those series were filmed in Baltimore! 1993's Homicide: Life on the ...
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It's another full week of new film releases but there are still just a handful of really memorable films ccelebrating anniversaries. That's January for you. Sadly, nearly all of the 1923 films have been lost, and one 1933 film is ...
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I think that every family that consists of a few armchair detectives has, at one point or another over the past half-decade, gathered around the dining room table with one of those 'true crime/solve the mystery/pretend to be a homicide ...
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