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10 Movies We're Excited About in 2012
December 21, 2011 in Public Spectacle
Sacha Baron Cohen is The DictatorWe know -- you're excited about The Dark Knight Rises. And The Avengers. And Hunger Games. So are we. We're also excited about a lot...
The Skin I Live In Review: Pedro Almodvar's Plastic Surgeon-as-Mad Scientist Movie Starring Antonio Banderas
October 13, 2011 in Public Spectacle
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Footloose Review: A Film to Help Mothers Teach Daughters to Date Studious, Drug-Free Gymnasts Over Stoned, Sleazy Older Dudes
October 12, 2011 in Public Spectacle
In hindsight, the 1984 hit Footloose -- starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Herbert Ross -- along with its contemporary, Flashdance, can be seen as the link between the old...
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Toronto Film Festival: Moneyball
September 15, 2011 in Voice Film
?"It's hard not to be romantic about baseball," admits Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics played, in career-best form, by Brad Pitt in Bennett Millers' Moneyball. This...
Toronto Film Festival: Moneyball and the Fetishizing of Spreadsheets
September 15, 2011 in Public Spectacle
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Toronto Film Festival: Julia Loktev's The Loneliest Planet
September 13, 2011 in Voice Film
The second narrative feature from writer/director Julia Loktev (Day Night Day Night played TIFF in 2006), The Loneliest Planet stars Gael Garcia Bernal and Hani Furstenberg as Alex and Nica,...
Toronto Film Festival: Bad Romance From Whit Stillman, Alexander Payne and More
September 12, 2011 in Public Spectacle
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Toronto Film Festival: Bad Romance From Stillman, Maddin, Payne and More
September 12, 2011 in Voice Film
Greta Gerwig in Damsels in Distress?Tragic romance is a big TIFF theme this year. Soured love tied to death and/or suicide and/or beautifully-lit misery has popped up in eight of...
Sarah Palin & Captial Punishment in New Films By Broomfield and Herzog in Toronto
September 10, 2011 in Public Spectacle
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Toronto Film Festival: Sarah Palin and Capital Punishment
September 10, 2011 in Voice Film
Werner Herzog Friday was Foreign-Born Documentary All-Stars Tackle Powerful Symbols of America day at TIFF. The scarily prolific Werner Herzog (whose first foray into 3D, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, premiered...
Toronto Film Festival: Jafar Panahi's This is Not a Film and Why That Title is Both Right and Wrong
September 09, 2011 in Public Spectacle
Toronto Film Festival: Todd Solondz's Dark Horse and What it Says About Contemporary Jewish Angst
September 09, 2011 in Public Spectacle
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Toronto Film Festival: Jafar Panahi's This is Not a Film
September 09, 2011 in Voice Film
Jafar Panahi and Igi in This is Not a Film TIFF 2011's opening night festivities were emblematic of the Festival's sometimes chaotic diversity. While a press screening of the highly-anticipated...
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Toronto Film Festival: Todd Solondz's Dark Horse
September 09, 2011 in Voice Film
Jordan Gelber and Mia Farrow in Dark Horse "We're Jews, and Jews we shall always be." So a main character warns of the us-vs-them difference that would define the first half...
Toronto Film Festival Preview: 10 Must-See Films
September 07, 2011 in Public Spectacle
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Toronto Film Festival 2011 Preview
September 07, 2011 in Voice Film
?The Toronto Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, offering the usual mix of Oscar bait, new films from foreign and experimental masters, and basically every conceivable thing in between. With the...
Another Earth Pits Beauty Versus Sci-Fi with the Former Winning
August 08, 2011 in Cultist
The Change-Up: Bromatic Jokes and Homoerotic Endgames
August 04, 2011 in Cultist
Captain America: The First Avenger Ignores Its Roots for Easy Money
July 20, 2011 in Cultist
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Marie Losier's P-Orridge Film The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye: Best Documentary Ever About Husband and Wife Surgery to Become Copies of Each Other
July 08, 2011 in Public Spectacle
"Sex is a virus," says Richard Foreman in Marie Losier's short film about his experimental theater work, The Ontological Cowboy, screening Sunday at LA Filmforum. "Let's not kid ourselves: we're...
Bicurious Girls In Bikinis, on Acid: Vacation! at Outfest
July 08, 2011 in Public Spectacle
Beats, Rhymes, and Strife: How Michael Rapaport Learned the Hard Way Why A Tribe Called Quest Just Can't Get Along
July 07, 2011 in West Coast Sound
Employed, Middle Class, White-Collar Men Have It Tough in Horrible Bosses
July 07, 2011 in Cultist
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Horrible Bosses Review: The Recession Makes Straight Dudes Worry About Getting Raped
July 06, 2011 in Public Spectacle
There's a scene in Horrible Bosses in which Jennifer Aniston, playing a dentist who habitually sexually harasses her weakling male hygienist (Charlie Day), repeatedly says the word "pussy." Her character...
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Bad Teacher Review: You Want Raunchy Comedy Starring Women? Be Careful What You Wish For
June 21, 2011 in Public Spectacle
From Tad Friend's New Yorker profile of Anna Faris (which Jezebel.com reblogged under the headline "Hollywood Insiders Admit Hollywood Hates Women") to the glass-ceiling-shattering pressure assigned to last month's Bridesmaids...
