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To Live and Die in Noir City

by mikepetersApril 4, 2024
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My Formal Introduction

by mikepetersApril 3, 2024
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COCKTAILS & MISDEMEANORS

by mikepetersFebruary 22, 2023
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The Teen Film: Sex, Lies, and The Breakfast Club

by mikepetersJune 5, 2012

  I desperately want to believe in the teen film as a valid interpretation of reality. That what I see for an hour and a half is

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Film Reviews,

Wall Street

by mikepetersJune 5, 2012

  Synopsis:   In 1985, an ambitious young broker, Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen), is lured into the illegal, lucrative world of corporate espionage. His downfall culminates as

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Film Analysis,

Independent Film of the 1990s

by mikepetersJune 5, 2012

  By the 1990s, film had become a paranoid industry. Because of its sole focus on safe investments, studios were no longer interested in taking chances on

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Film Analysis,

Independent Cinema of the 1980s

by mikepetersJune 5, 2012

  The 1960s and 70s brought about a fundamental change to the world of cinema. According to Peter Biskind (author of ‘Easy Riders, Raging Bulls’), the major

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Film Reviews,

Halloween

by mikepetersJune 5, 2012

  Synopsis:   A six year old child is institutionalized after murdering his sister but escapes fifteen years later. He returns to the scene of the crime

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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

by mikepetersJune 5, 2012

  It has now been nineteen years since the third and (apparent) final installment of Indiana Jones hit theatres. In 1989, it appeared that Indiana had partaken

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Major League

by mikepetersJune 5, 2012

  Synopsis:   The new owner of the Cleveland Indians purposely assembles a baseball team consisting of untalented misfits. Her goal; if they are bad enough then

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Film Reviews,

Duel

by mikepetersJune 3, 2012

  Synopsis:   David Mann (Dennis Weaver), on his way to a business appointment, pulls out of his garage, leaves his city, and heads out onto the

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Film Analysis,

Jaws: A Perspective

by mikepetersJune 3, 2012

  Thirty-five years ago, a young director, by the name of Steven Spielberg, overcame many obstacles to deliver a pulse-pounding adventure story bent on redefining the notion

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