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Review: Pitch Perfect 2
The standard formula for sequel-making is easy to remember: do it again, only bigger. Elizabeth Banks has taken this to heart while working both sides of the camera. Pitch Perfect 2 marks her feature...
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Palm Dog. The Tradition Continues. "Woof Woof"
We're working on collecting fashions and awardage for two final big Cannes posts before tomorrow's closing ceremony awards but this one deserved it own special bone post as appetizer. The most famous...
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Cannes Red Carpet Lineup: Auteur Couture and Formal Turbans
More Cannes fashion madness... MARGARET: We're back on the red carpet. bringing you the latest in movie star couture though we're a solid ten hours behind the proceedings. (And more since Nathaniel...
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Potential Foreign Oscar Submissions from Cannes
While most of the world obsesses on Eurovision today, we'll stayed obsessed with France. The Cannes festival ends tomorrow with the awards ceremony and the biggies like the Palme D'Or (the overall...
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Cannes Closing Prizes
12:25 The jury arrives and out pours their little soundbytes. Anticipation. Who will win the Palme D'Or? We're proud of our choices."-Rossy de Palma It was so congenial. One of the best experiences...
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Cate to the Rescue!
Cate Blanchett may not have won Best Actress at Cannes but she still wins our hearts. And now we're left wondering what Oscar will do with two lesbian dramas with obvious co-leads hitting them at once...
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Review: Chocolate City
This review was originally published in Nathaniel's column at Towleroad... So ballsy: Chocolate City, a black rip-off of Magic Mike, actually name checks Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike (2012) twice --...
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From Dope to Adam Jones: New Posters Roundup
Manuel here to try and help us catch up with the barrage of new film posters (and trailers!) that have dropped these past few days. It’s hard to keep up, what with Cannes, Eurovision, singing along...
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Holidayland at the Box Office
Memorial Day Weekend 4 day estimates are in and though it was a week weekend overall - Tomorrowland was soft which is quite scary since its budget was decidedly not -- but the three top holdovers are...
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Two Women. Two Questions
First a Question For YouHave you ever been baffled or resentful of an Oscar win (any category) only to finally see the picture and go "Oh, okay. I get it" and feel sheepish about your past dismissal...
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A Letter to Todd Haynes
Dearest Todd, Never ever under any circumstances take another 8 year break from the cinema. The reviews for Carol (2015) read at times like an ecstatic mirage, dehydrated desert critics stumbling upon...
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Peggy Link
Theater Mania Juliette Binoche to return to the stage with Sophocles' AntigonePlaybill interviews Laura Benanti Variety the charming animated fable Song of the Sea takes Best Picture at the Irish Film...
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Review: Tomorrowland
Michael C here. Last week I was here to announce that one of my anticipated 2015 titles exceeded my expectations. This week I need to come to grips how another of my most anticipated could miss the...
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Laura Benanti Predicting "Supergirl" in 2013
We're celebrating 1979 this month so let's talk about one of its most underused / overtalented showbiz babies: LAURA BENANTI. She's a Tony Winner (Gypsy) with great pipes, Broadway's Queen of Twitter...
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"Are you a Catholic?" (Actually No, But I *Get* It)
For The Lusty Month of May, we're looking at a few sex scenes. Here's Nathaniel... They like to say that people come into your lives for a reason. Also true of movies. When I saw Priest (1994) in its...
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Beauty Break: "Cinema Without People"
My favorite tumblr of the moment is called Cinema Without People which collects images from movies without the characters in them. Sometimes it's a perfect reminder of the skill of production...
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Review: Far From The Madding Crowd
In Far From the Madding Crowd, a new film adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel, every eligible man wants Carey Mulligan’s winsome Bathsheba. But she cannot be tamed! (Funny how commitment phobia reads as...
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Breaking: Cara Seymour to Guest Blog!
Sister Harriett. Hellcat Maggie. Pat Archer. Linda Houston. Mrs. Contie. Amelia Kavan. Marjorie Mellor. And 'Christie'... One of the screen's best character actresses is taking over The Film Experience...
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HBO’s LGBT History: Common Threads (1989)
Manuel is working his way through all the LGBT-themed films & miniseries produced and distributed by HBO. Last week we looked at the quietly touching film Tidy Endings (1988), written and starring...
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Vintage 1979: Kramer vs. Kramer, Sweeney Todd, Chris Pratt, Rosamund Pike,...
1979 is our "Year of the Month" and this post was way way too much fun to research. Before the main course of the Supporting Actress Smackdown (pushed to June 7th), let's marinate a little in the year...
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