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Tom Cruise? Really?!?!?
The Golden Globes offered up their nominations this past Thursday. In addition, we had nominations from the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the winners from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the New York Film Critics Circle. On to the current state of the race…

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Have you ever had a friend recollect a day that you had together, and you don’t remember it at all? Can you imagine if the day you can’t remember was a slaughter that you were a part of? Ari Folman’s film Waltz With Bashir opens with a meeting with a friend having recurring nightmares about […]

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‘Gomorra’ is a play on words: the biblical, depraved city swept away by God happens to sound a whole lot like Camorra, a Mafia-like secret society operating in southern Italy. It is also the title of the wildly successful and hotly discussed non-fiction by Roberto Saviano (published in 2006 and translated in over 40 languages) […]

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State of the Race, Part One
Or How the National Board of Review, Once Again, Yell “First!”
This past Thursday, the National Board of Review (NBR) revealed their winners and some Oscar contenders began to emerge, while others were beginning to be questioned. Instead of rehashing the winners and trying to explain […]

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Never blend in. It’s the tagline for Gus Van Sant’s Milk, and said once in the film by the titular character, former San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, the nation’s first openly gay man elected to public office. Harvey didn’t blend in; it would’ve been quite a feat to contain such a vibrant and joyful personality. […]

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Has a show that has flown as high as The X-Files crashed as hard? At it’s peak, it was a major phenomenon. A cult show, with questionable roots (Fox still wasn’t respected as a major network. Depending on who you ask, it would take until Ally McBeal or American Idol […]

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