War Horse tramples on western militarism - The Guardian (blog)


The Guardian (blog)
War Horse tramples on western militarism
The Guardian (blog)
When Hollywood got round to confronting that ill-fated undertaking, it found little to glorify. Instead it homed in on the horror, the horror. Films like Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket and Casualties of War fed public disgust with militarism.

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List of 5: Seminal silent films for lovers of cinema - The Reel Bits


The Reel Bits
List of 5: Seminal silent films for lovers of cinema
The Reel Bits
Naturally, there are scores of important films from the early years of cinema, but these are five from different genres: sci-fi, Western, horror, documentary and surrealist. Many silent classics have been lost to the ages, but thanks to the wonder of ...

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How we've scene it: Whatever happened to the movie musical? - The Oracle

How we've scene it: Whatever happened to the movie musical?
The Oracle
Even 1952's "Singing in the Rain," which the American Film Institute ranked as No. 1 on their 2006 Great Movie Musicals list, only earned two nominations for Jean Hagen's wonderful performance and Best Music. The rest of the list reads like a journey ...

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Op-Ed: Musings on Madonna's appropriateness for Super Bowl XLVI - DigitalJournal.com

Op-Ed: Musings on Madonna's appropriateness for Super Bowl XLVI
DigitalJournal.com
Another big moment came twenty years later, on a wild, sexy night in Houston during the Super Bowl XXXVIII Halftime Show when Justin Timberlake ripped a piece of clothing from Janet Jackson's corset, exposing a nipple-shielded breast to the horror, ...

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The creepiest cult leaders in movies - Yahoo! Movies UK (blog)

The creepiest cult leaders in movies
Yahoo! Movies UK (blog)
Well there is, but as Sean Durkin's new film 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' proves, it involves forever fleeing from psychopathic control freaks, intensive deprogramming and a healthy dose of paranoia to live out the rest of your days with.

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Movie Reviews for Friday, October 10 - Gilroy Dispatch

Movie Reviews for Friday, October 10
Gilroy Dispatch
Better than average film noir fare, Out of Time doesn't do much to reinvent the genre, but executes within its formulas in a pleasant enough manner. Tightly directed and adequately scripted, "Time" efficiently escorts its audience through the requisite ...

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Pusher 3: I'm the Angel of Death, the third instalment of Danish director ... - The Australian

Pusher 3: I'm the Angel of Death, the third instalment of Danish director ...
The Australian
This is why horror films are far and away the leading genre in quick-buck franchising. To date there are 12 Friday the 13th films, 10 Halloween movies, nine Nightmare on Elm Street chapters and seven Saw endurance tests. Interestingly, zombie godfather ...

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