The mysterious spacecraft in Arrival might as well be the tip of an iceberg. This thoughtful, deeply emotional film builds a delicately…
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Dr. Strange - OK, it's not what I expected. Sure - I've seen all the Marvel franchise films and as…
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Mel Gibson returns to directing after a ten-year hiatus with Hacksaw Ridge, a fact-based story of faith and violence surrounding a…
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Invoking comparisons can be a tricky thing - particularly when it comes to a film's marketing. On the one hand,…
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"When Fox Searchlight purchased Birth of a Nation earlier this year and announced a nationwide release, many relished at its…
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Today Ernest Lehman is principally remembered as one of Alfred Hitchcock’s coterie of writers, with whom Hitchcock created a succession…
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Final Draft 10 embodies the old Hollywood mantra of “same, but different”. Final Draft 10 has many of the same…
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This film has set a slight milestone for me. Perhaps not a particularly monumental one but still very personal. It…
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David Mamet’s book Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business contains a wonderful litmus test for…
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“Round up the usual suspects.” This classic line from Casablanca, delivered by the cynical Captain Renault (played by Claude Rains)…
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