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Rear Window (1954): The Writer’s Perspective

For me, Rear Window soars above Alfred Hitchcock’s other films. Which is no mean feat. There is an effortlessness to the film that other Hitchcock films that I’ve seen do not quite have. It deftly mixes wit, suspense, and romance, and entertains from beginning to end.

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Looking Back At The 1970′s: An Introduction

American cinema of the 1970′s is often looked upon as a golden-age. Studios, unsure of what the public wanted, turned the reins over to up-and-coming filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola, Dennis Hopper, Robert Altman, Hal Ashby, Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Michael Cimino, and Brian DePalma, in the hopes [...]

New Transformers 2 Trailer

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It looks like business as usual in Michael Bay’s world. Porno shots of the military? Check. Extraneous camera movement? Check. Obvious dialogue? Check. However…

…Steven Speilberg has proclaimed this Bay’s best film (okay, that is small praise and he is a producer!), while Bay has promised a more streamlined plot [...]