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16 Sep

Unforgiven: Clint Eastwood’s True Last Western Remains One of the Greatest

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As he glancingly returns to the genre with his new film, Cry Macho, it’s worth taking a look at the last Western that Clint Eastwood made, 1992’s Unforgiven. While he’s circled back to certain themes and concepts endemic to the Western in films since then, Unforgiven was his last film specifically and explicitly set in the Old West and was — as he said at the time — his final word on the subject. Eastwood has pretty much stayed true to that, even as Unforgiven stands nearly 30 years later as a masterpiece in its own right and arguably one…
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01 May

Notting Hill’s Real-Life Inspiration Remains a Mystery

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Notting Hill, the Richard Curtis-penned film about a “normal” British bloke (played by Paddington 2‘s Hugh Grant) who falls in love with the most famous actress in the world (Julia Roberts), became the highest-grossing British film of all time when it premiered in 1999. And it has been inspiring casual conspiracy theories about who it might be based on ever since. Because, yes, according to Grant, Notting Hill does have a foundation in reality. “This is a story he won’t admit to,” Grant told E! (via E!Online), “but [Richard has] told me in a drunken moment. A friend of his—an…
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26 Aug

Octavia Blake’s Character Arc Remains The 100’s Greatest Strength

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No matter how much we wish this weren’t the case – the final season of The 100 has some issues. Season 7 has largely shoved its primary protagonists, Clarke Griffin and Bellamy Blake, to the sidelines of its main narrative. It’s thrown itself into telling lore-heavy stories involving time dilation and teleportation stones, rather than wrapping up seven years’ worth of existing character arcs. It’s added a random dark commander as a new Big Bad for the gang to battle, but given him little reason to exist beyond the simple fact that he appears to enjoy killing and violence. (Been…
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25 Aug

Fortnite Remains Unavailable on iOS Following Judge’s Ruling

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U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has issued a restraining order against Apple which will temporarily prevent them from denying Epic Games access to the Apple Developer Program and the iOS version of the Unreal Engine. “I am not inclined to grant relief with respect to the games,” said Judge Rogers at the start of the hearing (as reported by The Verge). “But I am inclined to grant relief with respect to the Unreal Engine.” The distinction between Epic’s battle with Apple over the Unreal Engine and their disputes over Fortnite‘s transaction fees is an important one. As Judge Rogers…
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06 May

Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind Review

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Natasha Gregson Wagner says a poignant thing about her movie star mother, and her all-too tragic death, at the beginning of Laurent Bouzereau’s Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind. “Since then there’s been so much speculation on how she died that it’s overshadowed her life’s work and who she was as a person.” It’s a brief but sudden flash into the perspective of living with a lifelong media whirlwind of speculation and insinuation. It also is clearly Gregson Wagner’s pained personal truth. Yet what’s both interesting and ultimately frustrating about Bouzereau’s new documentary, which just premiered on HBO, is that it…
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