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Cinematical's Friday Night Double Feature: Damsels Not in Distress

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2008-05-23 00:00:00 by Monika Bartyzel in Cinematical
...distress. The might find themselves captured. They might get beaten down. But they don't wallow -- they fight back. And even better -- they're both old-school. One comes from the '90s, and the other first kicked butt on the big screen 31 years ago. I give you: Linda Hamilton's Sarah Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Carrie Fisher's...
 
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STREETS OF NO RETURN: THE DARK CINEMA OF DAVID GOODIS: THE UNFAITHFULIntroductory Remarks By Steve Seid and Noir Historian Dan Hodges

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2008-08-04 12:00:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...distress who is unique in film noir. She is not threatened with losing her sanity like Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight , nor with losing her life like Bergman in Notorious . Instead, she may lose her husband. Her marriage may fail like everyone else's. Both The Unfaithful and The Letter are notable examples of the kind of film noir that challenges...
 
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Dead Space Video Game, Movie and Comic

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2008-03-24 19:40:40 by John Campea in The Movie Blog
...distress call from an industrial space mining vessel, the main characters respond expecting to undertake repairs. What they find out instead is that the industrial complex has been over run by aliens I think I liked this plot back when Ridley Scott did Alien. However this time instead of the mining facility responding to a distress call, they...
 
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"Beowulf" howls at the IMAX

2007-11-20 02:09:55 by Editor in CinemaDave
 
...distress, the golden dragon made the audience jump with his sneaky behavior The final act also features an aging Beowulf showing compassion towards his enemies. Instead of smiting the poor defeated soldier, Beowulf gives the man some gold with a new story to tell. At another point in the storyline, when one follower of Beowulf embellishes...
 
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SGA 3x12 - Echoes

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2006-12-03 05:09:00 by Trinity in Movies News - StarGate and next Best Movies
...distress. Can the arrival of McKays whale be connected to these visions? Can the visions the team are seeing forebode an impending event? Also, can the team make sense of the weird voices they are hearing during their visions, in order to understand the unknown danger in front of them? McKays answer leads to a daring plan by Sheppard that...
 
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Star Trek: Of Gods and Men Part 1 Tomorrow

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2007-12-21 15:12:52 by Sam in Slice of SciFi
...distress call from an all-too-familiar planet, where they meet up with an almost-forgotten face, and in an instant something happens that presses the three friends to embark on a mission that will forever change their lives and the fate of the universe And what of the other legendary crew members of classic Trek? Captain Spock and Doctor...
 
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RKO B Westerns

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2007-11-10 17:16:00 by Chris Cagle in Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog
...distress, while Chito has settled down with the saucy woman he's been chasing for the film The films are intriguing for their partial conformity to what is now considered the tenets of the Western genre. In Rick Altman's terms, they have Western semantics, but not Western syntax. Its iconography fits comfortably, in its focus on landscape,...
 
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Sunshine

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2007-08-18 13:56:00 by Czaro Woj in Compact Cinema
...distress beacon from the thought-lost first ship sends the second ship off course, and suspenseful thrills commence. Story shares between the eight space people (6 men, 2 women), but is most aligned with nerdy-sexy physicist Capa (Cillian Murphy) and roughneck-sexy Mace (Chris Evans Funny thing about Danny Boyle's Sunshine is that...
 
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DAY 6: Jaws (1975)

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2007-08-06 16:47:00 by Damian in Windmills of My Mind
...distress is It hurts! and one of the things the young man resting peacefully on the beach whispers to himself is Im coming. Im coming In the subsequent scenes we meet the films central character, the new sheriff of an idyllic island town called Amity named Martin Brody (Roy Scheider). Spielberg immediately establishes Brody as an outsider...
 
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DAY 13: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

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2007-08-13 16:43:00 by Damian in Windmills of My Mind
...distress, Willie accidentally trips the wrong apparatus and the whole thing starts all over again (with John Williams' suspenseful music returning)