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Watch: Is Christopher Nolan's 'Inception' a Metaphor for Filmmaking?
Was it all a dream? Or was it actually a multi-layered, complicated love letter to surrealist film? Inception is just one of those movies that is fun to pick apart and analyze because it is so layered....
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Watch: Why Are Christmas Films So Sad?
Plus, other year-end existential thoughts on cinema. Whether you actively celebrate Christmas or are simply an innocent bystander to the sound of jingle bells and peppermint-flavored everything,...
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Hard-Boiled in Bong Water: Dude, What in the Name of Samuel Spade is Slacker...
What do films featuring hardboiled American crime, venetian blinds, bong water, and complete and utter ennui have in common? Surprisingly a lot, actually. Slate recently posted a video essay that...
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To Short or Not To Short: 3 Things to Think About Before You Make a Short Film
The first film I ever exposed was one roll of black and white Tri-X Kodak stock. I was 17, the film was about a dude who wakes up after a nightmare (or is he still in the nightmare?!) and gets chased...
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Was Pennywise the Real Villain in 'The Shining'?
Turns out that Kubrick using hidden imagery to hint at a fake moon landing isn't the craziest theory surrounding "The Shining." Let me preface this article with the following statement: I am obsessed...
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