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Three things become apparent while watching Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey with the new 48-frame-per-second projection technology. #1: Certain scenes with 48 FPS are dazzling, even revelatory

by Raj Ranade There's a tiny moment in a diner during Silver Linings Playbook that gets at the heart of what makes director David O. Russell's films so interesting.

by Raj Ranade Steven Spielberg's new film Lincoln can often feel like a greatest-hits summary of the director's career - the only thing it's missing are dinosaurs (unless you

by Raj Ranade It's been fifty years since the release of the first James Bond movie Dr. No, and every filmmaker creating an entry in the series since then

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by Raj Ranade UC Berkeley film scholar Fareed Ben-Youssef and I argue some about the latest film from Paul Thomas Anderson (click here for The Master review/exegesis) and get

by Raj Ranade "Long live the new flesh!" proclaims the lead of David Cronenberg's 1983 film Videodrome, a sci-fi horror freakout that was remarkably prescient about the virtual world

During the early hours in the press filing room, Romney campaign spokerman Kyle Downey was perched by the Fox News table joking with the technical production team sitting