I am agnostic over the question at hand in this article, whether Anne Hathaway is a good actress. This is largely because I can't think of a reason why I would watch most of her movies unless the wife wanted to go. Rachel Getting Married...
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Maybe some of you have heard about this before, but I just found out this week that It's a Wonderful Life was communist propaganda. Communist stooge begs before capitalist hero.
Nagisa Oshima, legendary Japanese director, RIP. Sorry that comments were closed for this post earlier, I actually just had to delete that post and start again. Or maybe I am.
I finally saw Lincoln last night. I doubt what I have is to say is anything others haven't verbalized. But a couple quick points. As a film, it's classic Spielberg. Well made entertainment in the broad and often obvious populism of D.W. Griffith and John...
Alyssa Rosenberg leads us to discussions of a Casablanca sequel: The New York Post is reporting that there's some momentum behind a decades-old script treatment for a follow-up by one.
Why has television surpassed film as the most important form of motion picture media? Maybe because shows like Mad Men tell interesting stories while the 14th sequel to a superhero.
I just finished watching California Dreamin', which is an absolutely outstanding movie you all should see. Now, I am a list oriented person, for whatever reason. So I keep a list of my favorite movies of any given year, up to 15. Here is my...
That's cool that Criterion is releasing Wim Wenders' dance movie from last year. Who knows, it could be good. Though when was the last time that Wenders really did an.
If you've never seen this cartoon by Chuck Jones from Looney Tunes and produced by the United Auto Workers in support of FDR's 1944 re-election, do yourself a favor and.
Maybe I will go see Won't Back Down since I have a love of agitprop. I couldn't find the exact trailer for the film online, but I'm guessing if you switch a couple of characters around, this is pretty much the same film.
Chris Blattman links to this very interesting image, charting film genres over time. As you can see, this charts some expected but interesting phenomena--the decline of westerns, the rise of.
(This is another one of those visual rhetoric posts that's born of this upcoming course ... which now has its own website that's only a demo at the moment so.