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HuffPost Review: Ironclad

Marshall Fine | Posted 09.05.2011

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Marshall Fine

When it comes to stories that bear transposition to varying eras and settings, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954) seems a prime example of a plot t...

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Movie Review: The Wolfman

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

Joe Johnston's remake isn't dreadful -- certainly not as awful as the commercials make it look. It's not a good movie, by any stretch -- but it could have been a lot worse.

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The Best Original Movie Scores By Farr

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Farr

Surveying the historical span of filmmaking, the use of original music appears more prevalent from the dawn of sound through the 1970s -- or perhaps it's just that the scores themselves were more memorable over this period.

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