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Mighty Movie Podcast: Shrieks from the '80s: Ti West on The House of the Devil

Dan Persons | Posted 10.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Mary Woronov, Murder, Horror, Drama, Suspense, Death, Ti West, Indie, The House of the Devil, Fantasy, Off Beat, The House of the Devil Movie Review, Art, Tom Noonan, Larry Fessenden, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

The Saw franchise may be more efficient in logging a body count, but The House of the Devil is the kind of film that reminds you how cool it is to settle back and just let the dread soak in.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Lars von Trier's Antichrist: A Conversation

Dan Persons | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Earth, Justice, Repression, World, Murder, Horror, Emotion, Lars Von Trier, Sex, Drama, Suspense, Controversy, Death, Indie, Environment, Gore, Antichrist, Acting Legend, Fantasy, Off Beat, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe, Art, Love, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

"Lars von Trier isn't going to talk to a lot of press." Yeah, yeah; yadda-yadda. But just because he isn't talking to us doesn't mean we can't talk about him, particularly about his childhood.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: The Underdog Bites Back: Tom Hooper on The Damned United

Dan Persons | Posted 10.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Brian Clough, Justice, Frost/Nixon, Emotion, Don Revie, Drama, Jim Broadbent, Controversy, Peter Morgan, Indie, Derby County, Success, Comedy, Michael Sheen, HBO John Adams, Timothy Spall, Acting Legend, Colm Meaney, Gritty, John Adams, British, Sports, Tom Hooper, The Queen, David Peace, Soccer, Leeds United, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

I've got nothing against sports films that exult in good sportsmanship and the triumph of the underdog. But I'm more inclined towards films like The Damned United that scrape past the noble veneer of sports.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: The War Won and Lost -- Florent-Emilio Siri on Intimate Enemies

Dan Persons | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Emotion, Afghanistan, Algiers, War, Battle of Algiers, Drama, Death, Controversy, Iraq, World, Benoit Magimel, Afghanistan War, France, Iraq War, Gore, Albert Dupontel, Explosions, Action-Adventure, Gritty, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Director Florent-Emilio Sari definitely has a knack for playing the audience. He makes the most of his Moroccan locations, finding an eerie beauty in the barren landscape.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: The Script That Kills: Austin Peck on The Blue Tooth Virgin

Dan Persons | Posted 10.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: La, Film Industry, Emotion, Trilogy of Terror, Script Doctor, Drama, Jealousy, Controversy, Hollywood, Days of Our Lives, Austin Peck, Los Angeles, Indie, Karen Black, Success, Comedy, Creativity, Roma Maffia, Acting Legend, Off Beat, Satire, Soap Operas, Writing, Tom Gilroy, As the World Turns, Daytime Television, Art, Amber Benson, Therapy, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

A TV writer tries his hand at a feature film. His friend reads the script, thinks it's an ungodly mess of muddled symbolism and Freud 101 anxieties. "Be honest," the writer says.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: These Moments in Time: Michael Almereyda on Paradise

Dan Persons | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Earth, Documentary, Off Beat, Emotion, Great Britain, Art, Drama, Indie, New York, Love, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Michael Almereyda is no stranger to toying with film form. His latest documentary, the deceptively free-form Paradise, is an affecting -- dare I say, paradisiacal -- experience.

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Melrose Place Recap: Episode 3

Tasha Gordon-Solmon | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Television Recap, Dr. Dirty, TV Recaps, The CW, Laura Leighton, Melrose Place, Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, Drama, Melrose Place Episode 3, Melrose Place Recap, Entertainment News
Tasha Gordon-Solmon

What's wrong in paradise this week? Riley hasn't changed her Facebook status to "engaged" and Jonah is devastated. Time for another misunderstanding that will irrationally culminate in a huge fight.

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True Blood Sucker Punch: Episode 12

Mark Blankenship | Posted 11.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: True Blood, Anna Paquin, Television, Sucker Punch, Vampires, Hbo, Drama, Vampire, Alan Ball, Entertainment News
Mark Blankenship

Seasons can't go on forever, and "Beyond Here Lies' Nothin'" sends True Blood out in style.

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True Blood Sucker Punch: Episode 11

Mark Blankenship | Posted 09.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: True Blood, Television, Anna Paquin, Sucker Punch, Vampires, Hbo, Drama, Vampire, True Blood Sucker Punch, Alan Ball, Entertainment News
Mark Blankenship

I can forgive my favorite shows when they have a bad episode or two. And I'll definitely have to forgive True Blood for this week's installment, "Frenzy." It's pretty much a disaster.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Won't Forgive, Can't Forget: Oliver Hirschbiegel on Five Minutes of Heaven

Dan Persons | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Film, Liam Neeson, United Kingdom, Exclusive, Terrorism, Politics, Drama, Movies, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Television, Northern Ireland, Guilt, Interview, James Nesbitt, Great Britain, Truth and Reconciliation, Uvf, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Could it just be coincidence? Could it just be that, by some random alignment of the planets, we have two films about the conflict in Northern Ireland opening on the same weekend?

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True Blood Sucker Punch: Episode 9

Mark Blankenship | Posted 09.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: True Blood, Television, Anna Paquin, Cable, Sucker Punch, Emmys, Hbo, Vampires, Drama, Racism, Alan Ball, Entertainment News
Mark Blankenship

What can I say? I wasn't feeling it tonight. "I Will Rise Up" has a few Sucker Punches, but it mostly functions as a placeholder.

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We're At The "Wright" Moment

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Politics, History, Sound Bites, Obama Speech, Drama, Confusion, President Obama, Msm, Rev. Wright, Obama Administration, Democracy, Media, Jeremiah Wright, Sean Hannity, Politics News
Stephen C. Rose

Recall that the Reverend Wright debacle necessitated a solution that only Obama could create. It is the same thing now.

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True Blood Sucker Punch: Episode 8

Mark Blankenship | Posted 09.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: True Blood, Religion, Television, Anna Paquin, Sucker Punch, Hbo, Vampires, Catfight, Drama, Alan Ball, Entertainment News
Mark Blankenship

Iximng ti pu. See what I did there? I took the phrase "mixing it up," and I mixed it up. That's because True Blood episode 2.8, "Timebomb," mixes up the meaning of two central metaphors. (I know, right? I'm so clever!)

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Gender Stupid (Psychically) and That is Fine with Me

Margaret Ruth | Posted 09.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Lesbian, Homosexual, Partners, Margaret Ruth, Same Sex Couples, Beliefs, Gay, Heterosexual, Culture, Gender, Hidden Beliefs, Partnership, Gender Roles, Dating, Drama, Relationships, Couples, Love, Living News
Margaret Ruth

Cultural overlays about gender and hetero and homo couplings do some funky stuff to people and block their ability to have perfectly healthy, joyful and whole partnerships.

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True Blood Sucker Punch: Episode 7

Mark Blankenship | Posted 09.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: True Blood, Television, Anna Paquin, Church, Sucker Punch, Humor, Vampires, Hbo, Drama, Alan Ball, Mark Blankenship, Entertainment News
Mark Blankenship

Are you serious, True Blood? Are you really going to spring Godric on me in the last moment of Episode 7 ("Release Me") and then cut to the credits? D

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True Blood Sucker Punch: Episode 6

Mark Blankenship | Posted 08.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: True Blood, Television, Anna Paquin, Entertainment, Sucker Punch, Vampires, Hbo, Drama, Alan Ball, Entertainment News
Mark Blankenship

There are so many sucker-punchy scenes in this installment that I could get carpal tunnel syndrome writing about them all.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: A Beautiful, If Somewhat Perplexed, Mind: Max Mayer on Adam

Dan Persons | Posted 08.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Hugh Dancy, Amy Irving, Max Mayer, Mark Linn-Baker, Drama, Rose Byrne, Autism, Frankie Faison, Asperger's Syndrome, New York Theater, New York, Recession, Interview, Comedy, Peter Gallagher, Exclusive, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

A conversation with director Max Mayer on his debut movie Adam.

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True Blood Sucker Punch: Episode 4

Mark Blankenship | Posted 08.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: True Blood, Anna Paquin, Television, Sucker Punch, Vampires, Hbo, Drama, Alan Ball, Entertainment News
Mark Blankenship

Almost all the characters are weakened in some way, which creates a queasily exciting energy: We can sense a bomb's about to drop, but we can't quite tell where it's going to fall.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Amat Escalante on Los Bastardos

Dan Persons | Posted 08.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Haneke, Home Invasion, Migrant Workers, Lou Dobbs, Violence, Drugs, Film, The Auteurs, Lou Dobbs Immigration, Amat Escalante, Interview, Cinema, Carlos Reygadas, Suburbia, Gore, Sex, Drama, Illegal Immigrants, Bruno Dumont, Horror Movies, Dario Argento, Podcast, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Los Bastardos is a spare and brutal survey of the suburban wasteland.

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True Blood Sucker Punch: Episode Three

Mark Blankenship | Posted 07.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: True Blood, Television, Anna Paquin, Sucker Punch, Vampires, Hbo, Drama, Alan Ball, Entertainment News
Mark Blankenship

Welcome to Sucker Punch, the only blog post that ranks the gaudiest moments on this week's episode of True Blood.

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True Blood Sucker Punch: Episode Two

Mark Blankenship | Posted 07.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: True Blood, Television, Anna Paquin, Sucker Punch, Vampires, Hbo, Drama, Alan Ball, Entertainment News
Mark Blankenship

And now back to the important question: When does "Keep This Party Going" go the furthest over the top?

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True Blood Sucker Punch: Episode One

Mark Blankenship | Posted 07.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: True Blood, Anna Paquin, Television, Alan Ball, Vampires, Hbo, Drama, True Blood Premiere, Entertainment News
Mark Blankenship

The series, created by Six Feet Under and American Beauty's Alan Ball, pulses with such reckless, lusty energy that I cannot wait for each new episode.

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Odd News

Jeff Dorchen | Posted 07.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Chicago Theater, Chicago, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Theater, Neo-Conservatives, Leo Strauss, Neil Simon, Machiavelli, Republicans, Literature, New School, This Is Hell, University of Chicago, Theater Oobleck, Theater-Oobleck, Education, Jewish, Drama, Entertainment News
Jeff Dorchen

Odd News and a new play: watch the preparatory video for Strauss at Midnight by Jeff Dorchen.

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Cannes 2009 Day Nine: Parents, Palestinians and Panic

Michael Giltz | Posted 06.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Belgium, Palestinian, Drama, Israel, Canada, Gay, Cannes Film Festival, Comedy, Animation, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

The critical consensus is as strong as I've ever seen at Cannes: the best film of the Festival is Une Prophete. Mind you, that doesn't mean the jury will pick it.

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Movies for Grownups

Chuck Weinstock | Posted 05.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Hollywood Studios, Media, Movies, Movie Industry, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Paul Blart, The Departed, Drama, Gran Torino, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Slumdog Millionaire, Adult Drama, Entertainment News
Chuck Weinstock

Movies for grownups seem to be in trouble. You can't pick up a newspaper without reading another article about the new studio decree: They're not making adult dramas anymore.

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