The Back Page – March 16 2012
Welcome to our new-look Friday column! It's Jerry Lewis's 86th birthday. Here he is with Alfred Hitchcock on the set of To Catch a Thief. Big release this week? Well, probably We Bought a Zoo, but fuck...
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by TheTramp So.. many.. Avengers. So.. much.. avenging… Avengers Assemble, the Marvel movie-verse’s ensemble superhero flick, has done exceedingly well at the box office, taking $1.2 billion to date...
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In which Ron Swanson goes a little mad and finds himself wishing for the comfort of the past, rather than the unknowable future. About FILMS! 2015, so big it barely all fits in one room! Yeah, yeah,...
View ArticleBoring Conversation Anyway
Not sure if you have heard, but there’s a new Star Wars film on the way. I know, me neither, but still. As a lead-in, we got some of our writers to talk about and around the ‘Wars. Many Bothans died...
View ArticleStar Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
MrMoth sits in a darkened space and listens to an old story told through fresh language. A long time ago, about 40 years, a man started telling a story. It was neither original nor, in its basic form,...
View ArticleThe Pictures Get Bigger
Sarah Slade muses on community and communality in cinemagoing in the era of digital exhibition. A long time ago, I r̶a̶m̶b̶l̶e̶d̶ wrote about the digital film experience in a review of Side by Side,...
View ArticleBoring Conversation Anyway
Not sure if you have heard, but there’s a new Star Wars film on the way. I know, me neither, but still. As a lead-in, we got some of our writers to talk about and around the ‘Wars. Many Bothans died...
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