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CAUGHT IN THE ACT

Argo is Another Success for Ben Affleck


By Jared Bowen
Argo is test of Affleck’s confidence and boundaries. This is his first non-Boston based film—a thriller in which he plays a CIA specialist drafted to sneak six Americans out of Iran at a time when anti-American fervor is at its bloodiest.
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Film: Sleepwalk With Me



By Stacy Buchanan
There’s this great little film making some big noise, and it's back in Boston.
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Sparkle: Whitney Houston's Last Role


By Jared Bowen
Seeing Whitney Houston one more time, especially as a healthy, maternal figure, gives this film its poignancy.
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Harvard Celebrates 100 Years of Paramount Pictures


By Edgar B. Herwick III
This year Paramount Pictures celebrates their 100th anniversary and this September the Harvard Film Archive is celebrating the famed studio by screening selected films from its considerable canon.
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Film: Dear Mandela at The Brattle Theatre



By Stacy Buchanan
Dear Mandela is not a documentary about activism, but instead an exposé on the pressures of historical burdens put upon the self-taught, politically savvy, post-apartheid generation.
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Film Review: Ai Weiwei, The Gentle Revolutionary



By Kris Wilton
Gentle and soft-spoken, the man many call Teacher speaks eloquently in Klayman’s film, describing himself, as among other things, a chess player: “My opponents make a move, I make a move.” In the recent, best-known part of his career, the line between these moves and his art is unclear.
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Film Festival Preview: Action Film Series at The Brattle Theatre



By Stacy Buchanan
From now until the end of August, The Brattle will be showing a variety of international action flicks chock full of fight scenes, car chases, and karate chops to the head during these final dog days of summer.
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Film: The Devil's Carnival Comes to Boston



By Stacy Buchanan
Can you imagine a carnival-themed afterlife where sinners are sent to pay for their choices? And in this afterlife, what chance would a conniving kleptomaniac, a gullible girl, and a grief-obsessed father stand against their transgressions?
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How to Work the 2012 Woods Hole Film Festival



By Stacy Buchanan
The Woods Hole Film Festival is an eight day showcase of independent films featuring daily screenings, workshops, panel discussions, and parties galore! And this year marks the 21st anniversary of the festival, which means there is a lot to do.
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Film: Bechard Brings Color Me Obsessed Back to Boston



By Stacy Buchanan
Color Me Obsessed takes us back to the very beginning of The Replacements, their public onstage breakup in 1991 and everything in between. Sounds standard, but it’s not.
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Jacob's Pillow Comes East



By Kris Wilton
Never Stand Still, Ron Honsa’s documentary about Jacob’s Pillow, on view at the MFA July 5–11, works well as a dance film largely because it focuses not solely on dance but also on the stories behind the place and the people who’ve made it what it is.
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Is Another Spider-Man Necessary?



By Stacy Buchanan
Expected to be this summer’s biggest blockbuster, The Amazing Spider-Man promises new–and not just new actors.
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Is Another Spider-Man Necessary?



By Valerie Linson
It’s promising a new world for Spidey fans to play in, a darker one where Peter Parker will be spending his time investigating the truth about his father and inventing artificial webs, all while barely casting a shadow of the geeky and goofy Parker of Spider-Mans past.
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Five Films to Watch on the Fourth of July



By Stacy Buchanan
The Fourth of July is a great time to have that summer barbeque you’ve been daydreaming about, maybe let the kids play with some sparklers, and later watch fireworks with the family. But more importantly, it’s a time to pay tribute to our military efforts and all who have sacrificed to afford us the comfort of this leisurely day.
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Let's Do the Time Warp (Never) Again!


By The Callie Crossley Show
The AMC Loews Harvard Square Theatre is closing. What does this mean for Rocky Horror fans and neighboring movie houses?
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Wahlberg Takes Bro-mance to a New Comedy Level in Ted


By Jared Bowen
Mark Wahlberg is infinitely endearing as the puppy-eyed John, who is legitimately torn between his loyalties to his best bear friend and the girl he loves.
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Why Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Didn't Work on Film



By Stacy Buchanan
It feels like the screenwriter barely read a CliffNotes version of the novel, which is uncomfortable considering Seth Graham-Smith is the author of both.
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Boston Remembers Morphine Frontman Mark Sandman



By Stacy Buchanan
Whether he was helping a stranger at a bar get through a rough time, or allowing local musicians to use the recording space in his own home, Mark Sandman was a part of so many lives in the Boston area.
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Lost Bohemia is Found at MFA Screening


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By Kris Wilton
Lost Bohemia shows how for decades Carnegie Hall housed more than 150 similarly obsessive creative spirits in a complex of thoughtfully designed artist studios, serving as an incubator for some of the nation’s most treasured cultural output.
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The 24 Hour Film Race: Who Will Represent Boston?



By Stacy Buchanan
The 24 Hour Film Race 2012 challenges filmmakers from around the world to create a completed short in, you guessed it, 24 hours.
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Film Review: Tom Cruise Rocks


By Jared Bowen
A leather-clad Tom Cruise steals this film as a singer slowly realizing his worth. Even more impressive, Cruise can sing.
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Contradictions of Fair Hope at the Roxbury Film Fest


By Bridgit Brown
Contradictions is the first film by award winning actress S. Epatha Merkerson. It examines the role of a benevolent church society in Fair Hope, Alabama and the larger impact such societies have had on Black history.
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Blowing Hard Over Cape Wind


By Jared Bowen
A new documentary film looks at the public division over Cape Wind — a field of wind turbines to be planted five miles off the coast in Nantucket sound, and at the $70 million dollars spent to spin the debate.
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"I'll be taking these Huggies and whatever cash you got": Celebrating The Career of Nicolas Cage



By Stacy Buchanan
Cage has built himself an impressive film resume, despite being criticized for his choice to star in Hollywood blockbusters as opposed to the independent, character-driven dramas that helped to mold his career in the first place.
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Snow White and The Huntsman Takes A Walk On The Dark Side



By Stacy Buchanan
If you're a fan of pretty shiny things taking a walk to the bad place, this is the movie for you.
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Prometheus Sets Out to Save the Human Race; But Can it Save a Franchise?



By Stacy Buchanan
Prometheus is finally getting its U.S. release this Friday. Although in the beginning the filmmakers were deliberately vague about its connection to the Alien franchise in order to build additional audience participation, there’s no doubt that we’re about to engage with the fifth film of the beloved series.
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Pearl Jam Twenty Captures A Band and An Era



By Greg Shea
Filmmaker and WGBH Producer Greg Shea offers a perspective on Cameron Crowe's new documentary, Pearl Jam Twenty.
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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975



By Kim McLarin
Kim McLarin reviews the new documentary which seeks to excavate the phenomenon which was the Black Power Movement in the United States, using never-before seen footage.
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"Porgy and Bess" at A.R.T.: Transformed and Illuminating



By Kim McLarin
Kim McLarin takes in the new production of Porgy and Bess” at Cambridge’s American Repertory Theater with the question “Why now?” and finds a surprising answer in the company’s new version of the 75-year-old opera.
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The Fallacy of Helping



By Bridgit Brown
For WGBHArts contributor Bridgit Brown, the film The Help brought to mind memories of her grandmother.
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For Colored Girls



By Kim McLarin
WGBHArts contributor Kim McLarin's take on the Tyler Perry film adaptation of "For Colored Girls Who've Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf..."
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A New Movie: Starring You.



By Arthur Smith
There's been a YouTube orchestra, a YouTube chorus, and now...one day in the life of the world turned into a "Crowd Sourced" film.

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