Ticking off the most recent list of axings and exits including the retirement of New York Daily News vet Jack Matthews (but no mourning for Pete Hammond), Variety talks around the phenomenon of the disappearing newspaper film critic, but manages to miss the bigger picture.
Both broadcast and print media outlets have long been gnawing away at themselves, [...]

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What happens when a young boy growing up without television in a conservative religious community in rural England is exposed to a pirated copy of First Blood? He and his friend decide to make their own low budget sequel, of course. We’ll finally be able to see how it all turns out now that the [...]

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“This is the last time I go to Supercuts.” 
According to Reuters, though the police in Myanmar have ordered DVD sellers not to carry the new Rambo movie, pirated copies of the film are easily available throughout the country. This probably doesn’t sit well with the ruling military government which is the personification of evil in [...]

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There have been a few quiet changes around Living in Cinema lately. For starters, I hit my unannounced goal of posting something new every day for the month of January. I actually ended up posting multiple items most days and I really enjoyed the regularity and consistency. I regret that the frequency of the longer posts has dipped, [...]

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