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The rom-com isn’t dead – it’s just a bit unstable
Photo credit: Nina Matthews Photography Several years ago, the romantic comedy was pronounced dead. In an Op-Ed piece for The New York Times, Sam Wasson pointed the finger squarely at Hollywood. Big...
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‘Spring Breakers Forever!’ Film in an era ‘Post-Everything’
There is a memorable sequence in Harmony Korine’s latest film Spring Breakers where wacked-out deviant ‘Alien’ (James Franco) plays Britney Spears’ ‘Everytime’ on a piano against a sun-kissed...
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Just one more episode: Binge-viewing television
Photo: ellenm1 With the feverishly anticipated release of the fourth season of Arrested Development, fans of the joke-a-second postmodern sitcom had two options: main-line all 15 new episodes over a...
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Masterpiece or Misfire?: Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives
In Nicolas Winding Refn’s provocative new film, Only God Forgives, boxing club manager-drug smuggler Julian (Ryan Gosling) finds himself hopelessly trapped in the realm between heaven and hell, a...
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Space terror and dystopian realities: Hollywood’s sci-fi resurgence
In her seminal essay, ‘The Imagination of Disaster’, Susan Sontag declares that science-fiction films are not about science–they are about disaster, ‘the aesthetics of destruction, with peculiar...
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Is the ‘Director’s Cut’ better?
As we reach the business end in another prolific year of film, where critics squabble over their ‘top ten’ lists with excessive pedantry and award-politicking reigns supreme, the case of the...
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