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Start Article Post Content Andre Singer’s “Night Will Fall,” debuting on HBO on Monday, tells the story of what happened to producer Sidney Bernstein and director Alfred Hitchcock’s hundreds of thousands of hours of footage of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps.Vivid, chilling and horrific, the images were part of an Allied-commissioned project in…
‘Selma’, ‘The Imitation Game’ And Rewriting The Past: Should We Expect More Accuracy When It Comes To Biopics? By Dave Crewe 19/1/15 end article header It’s fair to say that a lot of people were unhappy about the Oscar nominations announcement on Thursday. While nerds raged at The Lego Movie’s snubbing, the bulk of the…
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Most are nothing like their unethical onscreen counterparts. Photo: Photo Credit: Melinda Sue Gordon/© 2012 Knight Takes King Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved. A few months ago, I was sitting at a hotel in Huntington Beach, California, typing notes on my laptop, when two teenagers came up to me and started asking me questions. What…
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You’d think Disney’s Big Hero 6 would steer clear of controversy. That it would be a fairly innocuous movie. You’d think! Money Today reports that the movie, which isn’t out yet, is already creating some controversy online in South Korea, because net users are upset that the movie features alleged Rising Sun imagery. The sun…
Last week we gazed into the abyss, and the cold, dead eyes of the new International Rescue team from Thunderbirdsgazed back. As movies and TV constantly seek to strip-mine your nostalgia for profit, redesigns like this are common. And sometimes, they go very wrong. Here are 11awful makeovers of our childhood favourites. 11. Rainbow Brite…
via After Hours – 5 Racist and Sexist Messages Hidden in Forrest Gump – YouTube.
Race and gender politics at this year’s Golden Globes took an unexpected range of twists and turns. First, hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler shamelessly mocked the many rape allegations against Bill Cosby. Given that there has been a significant strain of public resistance among some African-Americans to the racial politics of a group of…
Five categories. Thirty-two films. All about science. Today, as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces the nominations for those coveted Oscar statuettes, WSF launches our first-ever Scio Awards. Vote for your favorite actor in a scientist role or write in your pick. You have until February 22nd, the date of the Academy Awards ceremony,…