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  • May 2008
    • Barely Illegal: 16 Jailbait Films

      Barely Illegal: 16 Jailbait Films

      As the recent uproar over Miley Cyrus “back-gate” revealed, the taboo topic of teenage sexuality never strays far from the American psyche. Nerve lists 16 films that walk the fine line between sexual initiation and legal deviation. Lolita : A British professor marries the mother to get to the oh-so-young daughter in this Kubrick flick, remade in 1997 by Adrian Lyne. More »

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      list   film   Woody Allen   Stanley Kubrick   Lolita   Taxi Driver   age of sexual consent

  • April 2008
    • Unhappy Ending, Where Art Thou?

      Unhappy Ending, Where Art Thou?

      Happy endings don't ensure box-office sales, but Hollywood still snubs sad or complex finales—even if they better fit the film, David Ansen writes in Newsweek . Filmgoers don't need movies to end on a smile: Take Titanic or The Third Man . But this year's summer fare, like Iron Man and Get Smart, is no doubt back-loaded with upbeat, sequel-sparking endings. More »

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      movie   Hollywood   box office   Spider-Man   franchise   Hollywood producers   Stanley Kubrick

  • March 2008
  • February 2008
    • Top 10 Oscars That Weren't

      Top 10 Oscars That Weren't

      In the Academy Awards' 80-year history, many classic films, performers, and directors have been robbed of their statues. CNN's Screening Room names the 10 most crushing Oscars that weren't, many of which lost out to—gulp—musicals: 1941: Seminal Citizen Kane loses to sappy How Green Was My Valley 1956: James Dean gets bested by The King and I's Yul Brynner 1958: Vertigo's Hitchcock loses best director to the man behind Gigi More »

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      list   movie   Oscar   Academy Awards   Brokeback Mountain   Martin Scorsese   Morgan Freeman   Al Pacino   Stanley Kubrick   Citizen Kane   classic cinema   Robert Duvall   Pulp Fiction   James Dean

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