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Alexander Payne’s Evergreen Political Masterpiece; Election
My favourite Payne film is also one of his earliest and is what is often referred to in public and …
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Shampoo – Beatty, Ashby, Towne and the Many Other Women
Has there ever been a more quality final product for a fashion of vanity project as this? Even then…
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Steve Martin – Original Screenplays (In Some Sense of the Word)
Steve Martin’s talents are such that they clearly no bound. For one of course being not only his wo…
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Steve Martin - Acting other People’s Words
When it comes to absolute influences to me creatively, Steve Martin is one of the biggest. Whether …
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Triple Bill: Love Affair Through the Years
Through the years the original 1939 film of Love Affair , has been remade twice. First as the equal…
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Halloween – THE WHOLE SAGA (Part Three)
This final article looks at the remaining films released, in the reboot era, the Zombie films and t…
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Halloween – THE WHOLE SAGA (Part Two)
This article looks at the films released from 1989 – 2002.
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Warren Beatty’s Misfire of all Misfires; Bulworth (1998, Written by Beatty and Jeffrey Pikser)
Perhaps there is no bigger swing in Beatty’s career than Bulworth. Now of course scope wise one doe…
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Halloween – THE WHOLE SAGA (Part One)
The Halloween series is one of the most convoluted and messy horror franchises we have ever had. Wh…
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The Way We Were (1973) – Barbara, Robert and Sydney
Sydney Pollack, working with Robert Redford once more came in 1973 to adapt to the screen the beaut…
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Oliver Stone’s Nixon, His Mirror to JFK.
Whereas as much as JFK is a film about political and governmental mistrust and conspiracy as it is …
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Blazing Saddles (1974) – 50 Years On
In 1974, as aforementioned, Mel Brooks released two comedic masterpieces with his frequent and grea…
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Shcrader’s American Gigolo – A Statement on a Decade and a Statement of Intent
There is a mission about Paul Schrader’s film American Gigolo, just as there is a mission about it’…
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Dead Poets Society (1989) - The Beauty and Pain of Coming of Age
In the 80’s boom of 50’s set nostalgia films there was more than a few that were set inside the pr…
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Robert Altman’s The Player (1992)
Hollywood has been making movies about itself nearly since the beginning, and for that matter Holly…
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“The American Dream is a product”: Comparing Arthur Miller and David Mamet’s portrayal of the salesmen of said Dream.
“Happiness comes not in fulfilling the dream but in ever believing in it and reaching for it"…
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Giving Up Berlin - Comparing the presentation and dissection of America and the nuclear family in Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” and William’s “Cat on a hot tin roof”
Within both Edward Albee’s “ Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and Tennessee William’s “ Cat on…
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Triple Bill: Written and Directed by Colin Higgins
Truly one of the great losses in comedy film history is that of Colin Higgins, who after his major …
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‘More Than a Study in the Tragedy of Mundanity’; A Study of ‘Everyday Tragedy’ within Alan Bennett’s “Talking Heads”
In 1988, Alan Bennett did something rather unprecedented for the theatrical landscape of the era of…
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The Big Chill, Forty Years On from Fifteen Years On – Everything Still Fits
The ultimate achievement in Lawrence Kasdan’s cannon as a writer and director and the one that in m…
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