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By Yasmina Tawil
Melissa rules.
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By Yasmina Tawil
By Yasmina Tawil
Recent Articles
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Isn’t Everything Autobiographical?: Ethan Hawke In Nine Films And A Novel
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This is Serious Business You're Fucking with Here: The Films of William Friedkin
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‘America’s Not a Country, It’s Just a Business’: On Andrew Dominik’s ‘Killing Them Softly’
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Christopher Nolan: The Man Who Wasn’t There
by Daniel Carlson
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Christopher Nolan: The Man Who Wasn’t There
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The Exterminating Angel: On the Wrongness and Righteousness of Abel Ferrara’s “Ms. 45″
by Scott Tobias
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