Month: April 2014
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Watch This: Trailer for Lucky Them
Lucky Them stars Toni Collette as a rock journalist in danger of losing her job. To hang on to it, she’s forced to go after a story involving an old boyfriend.
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Watch This: Trailer for Decoding Annie Parker
Decoding Annie Parker stars an Oscar nominee and an Oscar winner right off the top: Samantha Morton and Helen Hunt. They are patient and doctor. It’s sensible to expect fabulous performances from these two. The story is based in fact and tells about the pioneering doctor who first helped science understand the genetic link to…
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Black Inequality in Film (Infographic)
This infographic is from The New York Film Academy, who also produced the Gender Inequality in Film infographic I ran a while back. It’s very detailed, therefore the text is small, but if you use your browser’s View menu or the Cmd/Ctr + keys on your keyboard to Zoom the page, the infographic will enlarge…
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Watch This: Trailer for Belle
Belle will be in theaters May 2. It looks good to me and has a terrific cast. The film stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw from Touch, Undercovers, and Larry Crowne. The film is based on a true story about an illegitimate mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral who is raised by her aristocratic great-uncle. Also…
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Will You Watch Black Box?
The new series Black Box, set to begin on ABC on April 24 looks like something I’ll like. Will you be watching? The series stars Kelly Reilly as Dr. Catherine Black, a neuroscientist who works on the cutting edge of brain research. Dr. Black suffers from mental illness and attempts, somewhat imperfectly according to the…
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3 Reasons to Catch up on Continuum
Are you a fan of Continuum? If not, I’m here to convert you. First, check out this extended preview of season 3, episode 1. It’s from Showcase, the Canadian source of the show. The series is set in Vancouver. It appears on SyFy in the U.S, where season 3 just began airing. If this show…
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Female Characters are Profitable
Results from a large study by FiveThirtyEight show that having meaningful female characters in a film can be as profitable for filmmakers as the male led films. In a report at The Dollar-And-Cents Case Against Hollywood’s Exclusion of Women, FiveThirtyEight details how they conducted the study and the results. The measurement used in the survey,…
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3 Reasons Hot in Cleveland is Fabulous
Hot in Cleveland is in its 5th season on TVLand. I don’t enjoy sitcoms as much as dramas, but this one is pure delight. What makes this sitcom stand out in the crowded landscape of 30 minute comedy shows? Here are 3 good reasons. 1. The cast projects pure fun The women who form the…
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Watch This: Eliza Dushku Kicks Butt
Here’s a short film making the rounds right now. It’s called The Gable 5 and is apparently part of a larger plot and series about something I cannot discern. However, Eliza Dushku runs around in a tank top and kicks butt for the entire film, which is really all you need to know.