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Saturday, April 14th, 2007
In life, there is no such thing as a free lunch, but amazingly one can watch free movies. Free movies are those movies that are made for free distribution or have entered the public domain. Sometimes free movies may be downloaded from the Internet, which may be done legally or illegally.
Initially, this business started with [...]
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Saturday, April 14th, 2007
Movie trailers are short film advertisements of new movies that are not yet in theatres. They are previews of the film that give hints of its story line and introduce the actors and the scenery.
Trailers are so named because in the early years of cinema, the advertisements for one film were shown after another film. [...]
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Saturday, April 14th, 2007
King Kong is out with the Oscar-winning visionary.
The story in short can be enumerated in a few lines:
A crew of explorers and filmmakers set out to investigate the myths of legendary creature King Kong Travelling to Skull Island, they discover a land unaffected by time as Kong lives with dinosaurs that have [...]
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Saturday, April 14th, 2007
I’m in love with an ape. A twenty-five foot ape to be exact. Peter Jackson did the impossible: he managed to make a re-make of King Kong that didn’t suck and not only did it not suck it is arguably the best King Kong re-make ever and can rival the original as the [...]
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Saturday, April 14th, 2007
Reality television shows have been a craze for the past few years. You
may not realize that the first reality tv show was first aired in the 1950s. It
featured a band leader and his family. The show actually started on the radio
and was a husband and wife affair. The children were brought in [...]
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Saturday, April 14th, 2007
As with so many subjective “things†in life, there is a great deal disagreement over who are the best method acting greats in the acting business and in movies. A good place to start in a search for the best of the method acting greats is the famed Actor’s Studio in New York City. [...]
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Saturday, April 14th, 2007
Why the Fuss?
Since Dan Brown’s mystery thriller The Da Vinci Code (Doubleday, 2003) first appeared, people have asked a lot of questions, especially regarding Leonardo da Vinci’s world-famous painting, “The Last Supper.” Is the feminine-looking figure sitting just to the right of Christ really the apostle John, as traditionally believed, or is it instead [...]
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Saturday, April 14th, 2007
It is one of life’s greatest ironies that Ritwik Ghatak who is today something of a cult figure in Bengal was so little understood and appreciated during his lifetime. Despite the fact that today his films have won much critical acclaim, the fact remains that in their time they ran to mainly empty houses in [...]
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Saturday, April 14th, 2007
Many folks complain about violence in films and on television. Quite honestly, I don’t see much violence either place because I’m extremely selective in what I view. I was having a discussion with a friend the other day about this topic. It reminded me that I had written an article a while [...]
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Saturday, April 14th, 2007
Nominated for a single Emmy in its short three season stint, Wonder Woman - which premiered in 1976 - was the third attempt by the major networks to bring the popular comic book character to TV. Created as the result of a collaboration between the multi-talented William M. Marston and DC Comics publisher Maxwell Gaines, [...]
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