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There has been a recent change within the discourse of film criticism: perhaps it is a symptom of the internet generation that allows everyone to have a voice, to be a critic; perhaps it is an attempt to push...

Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Stanley Tucci, Delroy Lindo, Richard Jenkins, DJ Squalls, Bruce Greenwood Director: Jon Amiel Writers: Cooper Layne, John Rogers Budget: $60 million Worldwide gross:...

They were on a mission from God. No one stood a chance, let alone the entire representation of the Illinois Law Enforcement Community. Born out of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live, The Blues Brothers...

One Room With A View goes 12 Rounds with the unstoppable Annie Ellis. A master of horses, expert stunt driver, and qualified badass, Annie has survived everything the stunt industry can throw at her on- and...

“I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be “Sir”. Do you maggots...

Oh 21st Century – we all had such high hopes. Diablo Cody did great work for the quirky gal in all of us, winning an Oscar for Juno in 2007, Julie Delpy has been a fierce whirlwind of creativity since...

A Knight’s Tale is the gleefully wrought tale of a poor thatcher’s son in the service of a knight, who promptly kicks the bucket three minutes before he is due to win big in a jousting tournament....

A few years ago I took a Film Studies course at university. One of the classes dealt with cinephilia – the love of film. At the beginning of the session, the lecturer asked an interesting question that...

“Bill Shakespeare was a wonderful poet but Burt Bacharach he ain’t.” With these words Dr. Desmond Forrest Oates, a name and character more suited to breakfast cereal than high school directing, sets...

Roger Ebert was right. In amongst the resounding cacophony of negative noise, one man stood strong against the tide engulfing Stephen Sommers’ 2004 film. He simply states at the end of his review, ‘Van...

As we saw in Music of the Movies: John Hughes, music is never just background noise in ‘80s films; it’s also integral to story and character. And while the surprise dance scene of The Breakfast Club is an...

According to its audience, Scarlett Johansson's ass-kicker action movie Lucy isn't all that good at a Rotten Tomatoes rating of just 45%. Our own Cameron Ward gave it a 3 out of 5. “There to entertain”...

There is a regularly cited quotation from Woody Allen that goes like this: “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work I want to achieve it though not dying.” Granted, NYC’s comic prince...

Sita Sings the Blues is a 2008 film written, produced and directed by Nina Paley, who also features in the film. In a rather unorthodox fashion, the entire film is created using the Adobe animation program...

The last time we paused to recount the efforts of one of Hollywood’s most unsung tribes – that of the women screenwriter – we stopped just as silent cinema led into the talkies and a new era arrived in...