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10 Great Movie Music Moments

Feb 14, 2017 Wade Sheeler 2

by Wade Sheeler There are those moments in a good movie, very fleeting, when direction, plot and music all meld to deliver a message that is such a pure hybrid that no other medium could […]

Editor's Picks

The Death of the American Dream in Storytelling

Jan 12, 2017 Wade Sheeler 0

Much has happened quickly over the last four months. Progressives decry the end of Democracy as we know it, just as the other side celebrates the dismantling of our government and the disintegration of our supposed “core […]

Opinion

TCM Film Festival Fanatics Cry Foul

Mar 12, 2015 Wade Sheeler 33

Let me start out by making this disclaimer. I am a film fanatic. I have been all my life. I originally wanted to be a cartoonist, but when I saw Citizen Kane, (yes really, Citizen […]

Events

Lost and Found: Orson Welles’ TOO MUCH JOHNSON (1938)

May 6, 2014 Drew Morton 1

Let’s start with the bad news first:  The discovery of Orson Welles’s “lost” film Too Much Johnson (1938) is not the discovery of an early feature film masterpiece directed by the wunderkind of cinema before he […]

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