Category Archives: Cinema

The 50 Greatest Names in Movie History

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Sean Beaudoin

With a single click awaits the one Essential List that has yet to be compiled: the 50 Greatest Names in all of cinema history. Continue reading →

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Here’s Looking at You, B*tch: “Casablanca” as Male Revenge Fantasy

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Greg Olear

A film hailed as one of the great Hollywood romances is not, in fact, all that romantic. Continue reading →

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Extra-Terrestrial Infants Can Break A Man: Or How My Father Learned to Cry

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Samuel Sattin

Some people need to escape to somewhere far, far away to get closer to who they are on the inside. And by far away, of course, we mean the planet Fyrine IV. Continue reading →

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The 12 Most Pointless Remakes Ever Remade

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Sean Beaudoin

Wherein Sean Beaudoin posits that the truly horrible remake is, in fact, at the vanguard of a burgeoning movement of cutting-edge avant garde expression. Continue reading →

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Basterds Unchained: The Revenge of Artistic License

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Samuel Sattin

A devoted film-goer takes on the vitriol aimed at Tarantino’s most recent additions to American cinema, and mulls over the legitimacy of revenge fantasies. Continue reading →

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