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Film Dunce: The Muppet Movie
Film Dunce is a weekly series in which one of our writers finally succumbs to the lure of a movie that has long been a big part of our culture that they have never
Read More »Childhood Revisited: Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas
Childhood Revisited: What childhood movie did you love? Which scared you? And how does it play now, watching it again as an adult? In this new feature, our writers revisit the films that affected
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It says quite a lot about the enduring ability of Jim Henson’s menagerie of puppets to control our emotions and affections that, when told I was going to an early screening of The Muppets,
Read More »Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey Dir: Constance Marks Rating: 3.7/5.0 Submarine Deluxe 80 Minutes I don’t cry at movies. I’m not reporting this personal detail in order to perpetuate some imagined reputation for steely
Read More »Childhood Revisited: The Great Muppet Caper
What childhood movie did you love? Which scared you? And how does it play now, watching it again as an adult? In this new feature, our writers revisit the films that affected them as
Read More »List Inconsequential: The Best Soundtracks
Fight Club Original Soundtrack When David Fincher began work on Fight Club, he was adamant that the movie be scored by someone who had never worked in film. Although a year prior Darren Aronofsky
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