In soccer (or football, as the non-American world stubbornly persists in calling it), there is a rule that states that an offensive player must have at least one defensive player between him and the goal …
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With the recent success of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds and last year’s Best Picture nomination for Stephen Daldry’s The Reader, there has been a resurgence of discussion surrounding how Hollywood depicts World War II in …
When I watch films, I don’t normally arrange my schedule around themes. I sometimes do auteur studies, but this division inevitably gets complicated when I hear of interesting things that jump the queue or want …
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Some residents of Bethlehem, Texas believe that the image they see in a screen door is that of Jesus. Rated “R” for sexual content and some language, including the use of racial epithets.
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Premiered first on SnagFilms, “Girl 27″ is a documentary that focuses on one of the biggest scandals in Hollywood history. In 1937 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the world’s most prestigious and powerful movie studio, tricks 120 underage chorus girls into attending a stag party for its visiting salesmen.
When dancer Patricia Douglas tries to flee, she is brutally raped; defying the studio’s order for silence, Douglas files a landmark lawsuit while MGM launches the biggest cover-up in Hollywood history-until six decades later, when author-screenwriter David Stenn stumbles upon the story. Stenn’s decade-long search for the truth leads to Patricia Douglas herself, nearly ninety and still in hiding.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African is a staple of college history and literature course. Published in 1789, Equiano’s autobiographical account of the slave trade entered …
If you are a director who has taken out an ad in Variety slamming a film bearing your name as director (American History X) and sued the Director’s Guild of America after it denied you …
