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Film, Industry News

The Film Industry is Breaking My Heart: My Thoughts and Feelings on an Ever-Changing Landscape.

I’ve been meaning to write this article for some time. Every time I would go to write, I would become sad, anxious, and not clear in thought. The news of Paramount buying Warner Brothers, well, that pushed me over the edge. I had to get my thoughts to paper, so to speak. That another major original Hollywood film studio will succumb to the ever growing … Continue reading The Film Industry is Breaking My Heart: My Thoughts and Feelings on an Ever-Changing Landscape.

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The Hard Relaunch of the Golden Globes

How did we get here? I’ll give you a condensed version. Who are the Hollywood Foreign Press Association? The HFPA was an organization founded in 1943 by Los Angeles-based foreign journalist who wanted a more organized process for distributing movie news in non-US markets. It would become an extremely exclusive club that nobody could get a membership to. Throughout those early years, the Golden Globe … Continue reading The Hard Relaunch of the Golden Globes

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Film, Industry News, Pop Culture

Disheartened With Hollywood

I have been feeling very disheartened for the past couple of months with the state of the Film Industry in the United States. It’s why I didn’t write about Barbie, even though I saw it twice in theaters. It’s why I didn’t write about Oppenheimer. It’s why I didn’t write about my experience with a Barbenheimer double feature (so much fun. Was correct: Oppenheimer first, Barbie second). … Continue reading Disheartened With Hollywood

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AFI 100 Greatest, Film

11. City Lights (1931)

With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically. Okay. I’m going to be completely honest: I have not been able to figure out why this particular Charlie Chaplin film is this high on the list. The reason can’t merely be that Chaplin decided … Continue reading 11. City Lights (1931)

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Film, Movie Review, Pop Culture

A Green Dress, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Understanding the Delicate Formula of the Movie Musical

I want to talk about the delicacy of the movie musical. And, how it’s not often that somebody has a grasp on both stage musicals and movie musicals, simultaneously. Earlier this week, a much anticipated deleted scene from Tick, Tick…BOOM! was released. Fans of the film finally got to see the much-talked about sequence, which had required an awful lot of choreography on the parts of … Continue reading A Green Dress, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Understanding the Delicate Formula of the Movie Musical

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Things Heard and Seen (2021)

It can be hard to sift through all the Netflix Original films to find a good one. There’s just so many that get released at once, that the choice of what to watch, alone, can be overwhelming. But, that’s why you have me! Consider me your “movie guinea pig”. Things Heard and Seen is a 2021 horror/thriller written and directed by Shari Springer Berman and … Continue reading Things Heard and Seen (2021)

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Film, Movie Review

The Suicide Squad (2021)

Written and directed by James Gunn (Slither, Guardians of the Galaxy), The Suicide Squad is a reboot of sorts of the 2016 David Ayer Suicide Squad. You know, the one that Warner Brothers just couldn’t keep their hands out of? ANYWAY.  James Gunn clearly had a vision and he was not going to make the film unless he had 95% of the control. And, I’m happy … Continue reading The Suicide Squad (2021)

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Film, Movie Review

I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020): The Human Condition in Three Acts

The new Charlie Kaufman film, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, has been met with a varying degree of opinions. Some really enjoyed the film while others, not so much. Personally, I liked the film, but that’s only after thinking about it overnight to really make sense of what I watched.  Charlie Kaufman is a director and screenwriter that I love, so I partly knew to expect … Continue reading I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020): The Human Condition in Three Acts

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Film, Movie Review, Revisiting Disney

Revisiting Disney: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

The Nightmare Before Christmas is a film that I have always been reluctant to say I enjoy. Does that have to do with the film itself? Absolutely not. It does, however, have to do with the culture surrounding the film. I’ve noticed a trend. Those that love The Nightmare Before Christmas really LOVE The Nightmare Before Christmas and it seems to become nearly their entire personality. The diehard … Continue reading Revisiting Disney: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

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Film, Industry News, Pop Culture

With the Paramount Consent Decrees Ending, There’s Fear for the Future of Independent Theaters and Films

Movie theaters are in trouble, and even more so than we already thought. The Paramount Consent Decrees have been dismantled. For those unfamiliar, let me explain. With the birth of film in the United States came the birth of the studio system, where studios, under contract, had specific actors, directors, writers, and so on. That also included block booking their films, which ultimately led the … Continue reading With the Paramount Consent Decrees Ending, There’s Fear for the Future of Independent Theaters and Films

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