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One Night Stand Murder - Cast and Characters Explained

September 18th, 2023

One Night Stand Murder looks like it will be a movie masterpiece, with a gripping story and great acting from a skilled cast. This thrilling story of mystery, memory, and redemption will be out soon, so mark your calendars, set reminders, and get ready to be spellbound. Don’t miss the chance to go on this amazing movie journey. In the movie, a young woman wakes up in the home of a stranger and finds a dead body. She doesn’t remember what happened the night before, but now that she is a suspec...

Winnie The Pooh Horror Movie

September 16th, 2023

Skip to content  Home / Entertainment / How To Watch Winnie The Pooh Horror Movie advertisement continue reading below Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Pinterest How To Watch Winnie The Pooh Horror Movie Published: September 16, 2023 Overview of the Winnie the Pooh Hor...

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anachronisms

September 12th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 anachronism (thing) See all of anachronism, there is 1 more in this node. (thing) by ThatGuy Sun Feb 27 2005 at 3:15:06 Anachronism commonly occurs in films due to oversight by the director or by the writer. It manifests itself showing Scottish warriors wearing kilts before they were invented, cold-war era spies using GPS, and planes during the times of the American Civil War. Generally, bouts of anachronism are overlooked, howe...

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Beside You in Time

September 5th, 2023

illustration by Marc AspinallA woman dives off a yacht into the shimmering waters of the Amalfi Coast, simultaneously imprisoned by, and freed from, her future self. Only, before, she doesn’t know it yet. You see, time is relative. When she glimpses the woman––who is, in fact, herself––swan into the sea as she approaches the yacht by motor boat, she’s a stranger to the woman she will become, first seen in lean silhouette, a symbol of her desired extrication from an abusive husband who is both...

Stealing Reason from God - Theft in Time Bandits and The Fisher King

August 31st, 2023

Time Bandits (1981) | Avco Embassy Pictures> Theft as metaphor/metaphor as theftWho is the God of the white man of the midwestern United States? And once we know who God is, we have to ask: does he have anything worth nicking? Former American Terry Gilliam has directed 12½ feature films, all of them fantastical reflections of our society and its foibles. Gilliam is the most cynical fantasist in cinema, and his surreal, misty films often put our own bad behavior on display. Gilliam crafts a sh...

Does Barbie Get Away With It?

August 13th, 2023

Does she?          Greta Gerwig’s Barbie (2023)            The funniest anecdote to spill out of this week’s avalanche of reviews of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie has to be the one Jordan Hoffman tells at the Messenger. He walked out of his screening "in a very upbeat mood," and he happened to spot "the legendary critic, professor, curator, and downtown art figure Amy Taubin getting into the elevator. ‘Amy,’ I asked, ‘were you inspired?’ She looked back at me and spat, ‘It’s about a fucking doll!’"...

Character Analysis of Michael Corleone from The Godfather Trilogy

July 11th, 2023

Character Analysis of Michael Corleone from The Godfather Trilogy: The storyline of Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy is regarded as a key cultural milestone due to its ability to captivate viewers all over the world with its intriguing story and memorable characters. Michael Corleone is identified as the primary protagonist among the characters, undergoing a significant transformation that effectively strikes an emotional connection with the audience. The narrative centers around the ...

Michael Wood - At the Movies

July 5th, 2023

Wes Anderson’s​ new film, Asteroid City, is like a cartoon without the toons. It’s true that the alien who descends (twice) into the picture looks like a drawing of a long-legged human tadpole. Similarly, the desert where much of the film is set looks less like an actual landscape than a sketch of somebody’s idea of such a place, complete with squiggled humps serving as mesas. But then the credits tell us that an actor (Jeff Goldblum) is playing the role of the alien, and that the film’s prin...

Indiana Jones: The Antikythera, the Ark, and the Fact and Fiction Behind the Movies

July 4th, 2023

Along with Harrison Ford’s iconic character’s exploits cracking whips, globetrotting, wearing a fedora and leather jacket regardless of climate, and — we cannot emphasize this enough — punching Nazis, what turned audiences into voracious fan of Indiana Jones is how the treasure hunter would pursue artifacts that belong in a museum (preferably a museum in the area whence the artifact originated). What we love about Indiana Jones is how the franchise tapped into real-world archaeological di...

Symbolism in Film and Television

July 1st, 2023

What are some of your favorite symbols in movies and TV?  My favorite part of watching films and TV shows is picking out the hidden things the filmmakers have layered in for us to pick up on. Film and TV are visual mediums and thus, lend themselves to tangible symbols that drive home the theme of the story.  Symbolism is a powerful device used across various forms of art, including literature, paintings, and music. In the world of film and television, symbolism has the potential to make a s...

TEENAGE TUPELO (1995)

June 16th, 2023

366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links."Everything Revealed! Nothing Explained!"–tagline for Teenage Tupelo DIRECTED BY:John Michael McCarthyFEATURING: D’Lana Tunnell, Hugh Brooks, Wanda WilsonPLOT: Voluptuous D’Lana Fargo is knocked up by local Tupelo singer Johnny Tu-Note. Her mother sets up an adoption, and Johnny wants her to get rid of the baby. D’Lana falls in with a group of "Man Haters" who are fans of stripper/sexploitation filmmaker Topsy Tur...

Octopussy

June 13th, 2023

June 10, 1983 As I’ve demonstrated a few times in the past, I’m not a Bond guy. So believe it or not OCTOPUSSY is a first time viewing for me. I come to it with incomplete context, zero nostalgia, but also no preconceived notions of what a Bond movie or actor needs to be like. I can view it casually as-is and report that it’s pleasingly silly and mildly amusing. Some of its qualities that some would consider shortcomings barely need to be stated. Roger Moore (THE CANNONBALL RUN) as Jame...

DreamQuil

June 12th, 2023

DreamQuil: Elizabeth Banks & John C. Reilly To Star In A.I. Thriller, HanWay Film Shopping It At Cannes MarketAnother day, another intriguing thriller hits the Cannes market. Deadline reports that HanWay Films has a thriller about the dangers of AI on the Croisette with Elizabeth Banks and John C. Reilly in the leads. Its title? "DreamQuil," and, no, that isn’t also the title for a new sleep medication.READ MORE: Brie Larson & Paul Dano Join Ruben Ostlünd On The 2023 Cannes JuryInstea...

Obscure Objects of Desire: A Jam Session on Non-Narrative

June 12th, 2023

This appeared originally in Film Comment, July-August 1978, and was reprinted by Saul Symonds in March 2005, with separate new prefaces by myself (reproduced below) and David Ehrenstein, in the online Light Sleeper (which is no longer up, alas). It’s also reprinted in my recent book Cinematic Encounters: Interviews and Dialogues (2018). — J.R. Obscure Objects of Desire: A Jam Session on Non-NarrativeBy Raymond Durgnat, David Ehrenstein and Jonathan Rosenbaum Preface by Jona...

Sorry To Bother You - Andrew Robertson - 18397

May 28th, 2023

"I've seen it described as a film with a twist but that suggests it's got just one. It's full of them, it's made of them, it reels and gyres and tumbles into something special."Sorry To Bother You is a film that I have been sleeping on. To borrow vernacular that, and inaccurately. I have not failed to recognise its quality, its invention and its power. What I have failed to do, repeatedly, is tell you about it here.There's a quote attributed to William Gibson that suggests the future is here,...

The Current Debate: Beau Is Afraid, But Is That All There Is to Him?

May 8th, 2023

Over at Reverse Shot, during a candid and illuminating chat about his latest, Beau is Afraid, Ari Aster tells Michael Koresky about his fastidious approach to production design. Several of the film’s locations were built on a stage, and countless little details—"every poster, every sign, every product"—were created from scratch. Aster cites his obsession for such persnickety world-building as one reason the film was eventually converted to IMAX. Only a wider aspect ratio can do justice to all...

Decoding the Spy Genre in Film and TV by Jason Hellerman

April 22nd, 2023

Decoding the Spy Genre in Film and TV by Jason Hellermanhttps://nofilmschool.com/spy-genre-film-and-tv-definition-examplesOne of the earliest spy movies was The Battle of Port Arthur (1904), a silent film produced by the Edison Company that depicted the Russo-Japanese WarDecoding the Spy Genre in Film and TV (Definition and Examples)SourceURL: https://nofilmschool.com/spy-genre-film-and-tv-definition-examplesALSO published with original formatting in Rootbeer Review -zasIt's time to...

Leftovers - The - Longest Running Joke

April 21st, 2023

‘The Leftovers’ Longest Running Joke: A Timeline of Every Reference to Justin Theroux’s Penis As "The Leftovers" approaches its series finale, Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta reflect on all the times they embarrassed their star. Ben Travers May 29, 2017 3:35 pm  @BenTTravers ...

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Mrs. Davis Is Unlike Anything Else on Television

April 20th, 2023

Getty Images/NBC/Ringer illustration The zany Peacock series from Damon Lindelof (‘Lost,’ ‘Watchmen,’ ‘The Leftovers’) is a welcome departure—pun intended—from the showrunner’s usual sensibilities Damon Lindelof isn’t immune to criticism; in fact, he often reacts to it. The cocreator of Lost infamously quit Twitter amid ongoing critiques of the polarizing series finale, which didn’t satisfy some viewers’ urge to unpack every corner of the show’s mystery-box storytelling. (In hin...

Dril Is Everyone - More Specifically a Guy Named Paul

April 13th, 2023

Ringer illustration Paul Dochney posted his way into the halls of internet lore. After 15 years of anonymity, can he emerge without compromising his act? "Man is a double being and can take, now the god’s-eye view of things, now the brute’s eye view." —Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means, 1937 "the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: ‘theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron’" —Dril, Twitter, 2014 Dril is a real perso...

Logic of Time Travel Can Get Pretty Trippy

April 11th, 2023

Home/SCIENCE FICTIONThe Logic of Time Travel Can Get Pretty TrippyBy Kirstin FawcettNov 6, 2017iStock / iStockTime travel is a common theme in fiction—but writers, artists, and designers all have different ideas of what moving between different points in history would look like, and how these journeys would affect both the traveler and those they encounter. Minute Physics' video below explores the distinctions between time travel as presented in the book Ender's Game, movies like Planet of th...

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Most unforgettable couples in movie history

March 17th, 2023

Clockwork from top left: The Empire Strikes Back (Screenshot: 20th Century Studios/YouTube); The Matrix (Screenshot: Warner Bros./YouTube); Rocky IV: The Director’s Cut (Screenshot: MGM/YouTube); Titanic (Screenshot: 20th Century Studios/YouTube) Graphic: The A.V. Club When you think back at the most memorable on-screen couples in movie history, it’s natural to think of romantic dramas and sugary rom-coms first—something that stars Meg...