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By Matt Prigge

Six Historical Movies that Deliberately Use Anachronistic Music

Elvis Presley wanted to be an actor. Before music, his passion was movies, and as his star rose he spoke of attending the Actors Studio. He even insisted that any movie roles would be nonsinging. Alas, Colonel Tom Parker had other ideas, and ordered that his client’s debut vehicle include some crooning, even if his style of music didn’t exactly gibe with the setting: the Civil War.

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Posted Feb. 8, 2012 | Comments: 0

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Six Horror Movies Where the “Filler” is Superior to the Horror

Horror films are intended to scare. So, it’s unusual when some filmmakers, on purpose or by accident, get the formula backward, going light on scares but big on the aspects most of the genre’s perpetrators don’t care about: acting, character development, strong themes, etc.

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Posted Jan. 31, 2012 | Comments: 1

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Six Films Featuring Women Cross-Dressing

With exceptions, male cross-dressing is at least intended, however successfully, as an easy laugh. (Or in Jack Lemmon’s and Dustin Hoffman’s cases, an actual good one.) For whatever reason, hilarity doesn’t automatically arise when the cross-dressing goes the other way.

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Posted Jan. 25, 2012 | Comments: 0
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Six Action Films Made by Non-Action Directors

Robert Altman made a chamber drama; Martin Scorsese a children’s picture; David Lynch and David Mamet each a film rated G. Master filmmakers aren’t above working outside their comfort zones, but only a few have dirtied themselves with a more challenging film type: the action movie.

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Posted Jan. 18, 2012 | Comments: 0

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