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A Pentametric Glance at Shakespeare Films
Titus (Julie Taymor, 1999) The Players: Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan Cumming, Jonathan Rhys Meyers A wearied Hopkins masked in azure glazeBeco... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Bachelorette
This simple recipe will produce exactly one dimly generic comedy wedding film. You will need: three hateful female stereotypes, some cocaine, a plush hotel,... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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The Conjuring
A mirrored music box out of which trickles stilted, lilting lullabies. Blindfold games of hide-and-seek. An unknown hand, an exposed ankle, the dead of night... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Drinking Buddies
Joe Swanberg chooses to mash his gently balanced mumble-com Drinking Buddies in a Chicago microbrewery, where marketing manager Kate, rendered in baggy vests... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Patrick Stewart as a neo-nazi & 5 more unlikely roles
Lovable thespian and king of Twitter Patrick Stewart as a violent white supremacist? Really? This wrinkle of film casting in Jeremy Saulnier’s upcoming... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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The Mermaid
A delightfully silly fantasy adventure from Kung Fu Hustle director Stephen Chow In The Mermaid, Stephen Chow doesn’t so much take the fish out of wat... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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Perfect Blue
After a perky final performance, budding J-pop star Mima announces to fans she’ll be leaving music behind to chase her dream of becoming an actress. So... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Femme fatales, Dangerous Dames & female film archetypes
Feeling underrepresented, repressed or a general lack of purpose in your current job? Of course you are – you’re a female stereotype! You’... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Summer Preview: Blockbusters v Art-house
The (Rare) Female Protagonist The Brave: Pixar’s latest, set in an olden-days Scotch-land where the men are big and drunk and the wummin ken their pla... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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Light and Shade: The Films of 2012
1. The Raid (Gareth Evans) Vice-like expectation is nuanced only by punishing adrenalin in Gareth Evans’s Indonesian actioner The Raid. Rookie cop Ram... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Films of 2015: Hippies, Road Warriors and STD Hauntings
Once again our writers draw lines in the cinematic sand to choose 2015's essential films. Our top ten has a curious gender divide: the male protagonists (The... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago