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12 Movies Set on Military Bases
No doubt you’ve heard the tragic news of the events that unfolded at Fort Hood yesterday, a place so remote and different from our daily lives that we struggled to picture what the largest military base in the U.S. might actually look and feel like. As we always do, we turned to cinema for some [...]
18 Documentaries That Blur the Line Between Truth and Fiction
Playing with the porous border between fiction and documentary has become commonplace in today’s cinema (see Bruno, Cloverfield, Diary of the Dead), but how long has the trend been developing. Browsing The Onion A.V. Club’s listicle of 18 Documentaries That Blur the Line Between Truth and Fiction, they reach all the way back to Nanook [...]
5 Movies to Know Your Rock ‘n’ Roll History
The cinephiles at one of our favorite movie blogs, Future of Classic, bring us a helpful list on the occasion of the recent release of Cadillac Records (the movie about blues label Chess Records), which covers an oft-overlooked period in the early development of rock in Chicago.
Too short to be impervious to criticisms, their 5 [...]
