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Spoilers in the Preview? Time to Cull Your Marketing Department
Some might suggest that a movie like The Usual Suspects is overrated and garners undue praise because its narrative is predicated on a lie, namely one that Verbal Kint (Kevin ...
Best Prison Films – Or, Why We Root for the Bad Guy
The prison film might be the genre most antithetical to how we view heroes and villains. As opposed to films set in courtrooms where the victim usually wins and the ...
Unforgiven – A Western’s Take on Identity and Value
What’s ostensibly a Western driven by the remedying of an injustice, Unforgiven is really an exploration into how perceived identity defines value, whether it centers on William Munny (Clint Eastwood), ...
Red – Thank God I’m Unemployable
As I ponder what to do during my retirement, it often involves the usual sitting on a porch, yelling at kids to get off my lawn – whether they are ...
The Denzel Washington Venn Diagram
This is perhaps even better than The Morgan Freeman Chain of Command. (via ...
The Morgan Freeman Chain of Command
My early Christmas present to you. (via I Love Charts) It seems like the higher up the ladder that Morgan climbs, the worse the chance is that he will be ...
