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Hayao Miyazaki’s final film is set to release this year, and this one might actually be his final, final movie. With that caveat, How to Live is probably set for Academy Awards recognition in the Animated Feature Category. It took
That’s a hyperbolic title. Upon release the critical reception for The Notebook was middling, even as the film was gobbled up en masse by a rapturous audience. Today, The Notebook is pretty firmly beloved. Obviously, the split is part of
When the first Evil Dead film broke out as a box office success against its minimal $375,000 budget, the floodgates were opened for up-and-coming filmmakers to cut their teeth on splattery exploitations made on the cheap. What’s a New Zealander
Beloved high-concept comedy Groundhog Day turned 30 years old recently. That’s 30 real years. By some estimates, if Phil had gotten stuck in his time loop (where the same day repeats every day add infinitum) on the film’s release day,
Quentin Tarantino’s 10th and (supposedly) final film has been named: The Movie Critic. Plot details indicate that the film will likely revolve around a particular critic with an immeasurable influence over Quentin’s, and likely many other creatives’, work. Uncompromising. Brilliant.
Last week, The Writer’s Guild Association of America bestowed its highest honour on a venerable master of creatively free screenwriting, Charlie Kaufman. He dubbed that honour the “old-man-lifetime-achievement-award”, introduced by a reverent and delightfully awkward Jessie Buckley. His acceptance speech
Jack Kerouac found himself in possession of a singular voice. Spontaneous, dynamic, emblematic of the Beat generation he helped to pioneer, it’s a unique vantage from which to extol advice. It’s reasonable to assume that Kerouac wouldn’t be able to
It’s screenwriter David Willis who finds himself in a position to declare knowledge of the routine to end all other routines. Some tried-and-tested techniques Willis makes use of: write backwards starting with your ending first and asking what a fun
Of the few original IP blockbuster franchises of the 2010s (and beyond), John Wick makes a strong case for itself, having revitalized Keanu Reeves’ career, and to some degree, the action genre itself. Certainly its style has had an impact
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