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Matt Singer

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Matt Singer covers the world of film for the Independent Film Channel. He's also a regular contributor to their website, IFC.com. His personal blog is Termite Art.
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YouTube Art: The Magic of Running Scared

  • Matt Singer
  • May 11, 2010
Quick, name the first two actors that come to mind when I say the phrase “badass buddy cops.” Who’d you think of? Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal? Hey, me too!
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Movies, Briefly: Night and the City (1950)

  • Matt Singer
  • April 13, 2010
We meet Night and the City‘s protagonist Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) in his natural state: on the run from his creditors. Things are bad for Harry before the movie begins…
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Movies, Briefly: Brute Force (1947)

  • Matt Singer
  • April 9, 2010
Brute Force is a robust, testosterone-soaked action picture. It’s about as manly as movies get, and yet it paints such a different picture of masculinity than the one seen in…
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Movies, Briefly: Play Misty For Me (1971)

  • Matt Singer
  • April 6, 2010
When Clint Eastwood made Play Misty for Me he was a cowboy. He got his start on television with Rawhide and of course became an international star in Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns.…
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  • Music

Movies, Briefly: The Kids Are Alright (1979)

  • Matt Singer
  • March 31, 2010
“Rock and roll’s never ever stood dissecting and inspecting it at close range. It doesn’t stand up. So shut up.” Jeff Stein’s documentary, The Kids are Alright, lives up to that…
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Movies, Briefly: Footsteps in the Dark (1941)

  • Matt Singer
  • March 26, 2010
Footsteps in the Dark is just so wonderfully absurd; there’s maybe eight minutes in this movie that could exist in the real world: they rest is pure poppycock. It concerns…
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Movies, Briefly: Surrogates (2009)

  • Matt Singer
  • March 24, 2010
Surrogates feels like the least interesting film you could possibly make out of some very interesting material. It presents a world, adapted from the graphic novel by Robert Venditti and…
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Movies, Briefly: An Affair to Remember (1957)

  • Matt Singer
  • March 19, 2010
Though its final act revolves around a thoroughly aggravating plot contrivance (“Just tell him Deborah Kerr! TELL HIM!”) and there’s two dopey musical numbers by children’s choirs for no reasons…
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Movies, Briefly: Octopussy (1983)

  • Matt Singer
  • March 16, 2010
When people claim Casino Royale is a “realistic” Bond movie, they don’t mean it’s realistic in any sense that relates to the real world, because it’s not and it doesn’t.…
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Movies, Briefly: I Was A Male War Bride (1949)

  • Matt Singer
  • March 11, 2010
What a pleasure to find an old Hollywood movie whose primary conflict is the battle of its two leads to get laid. I don’t mean it in the lovey-dovey romantic…
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Movies, Briefly: Vanishing Point (1971)

  • Matt Singer
  • February 23, 2010
I’m not a big fan of the moment early in the film where Barry Newman’s Kowalski drives past himself in a different car and disappears into thin air (“Holy crap!…
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YouTube Art: Scarface: The TV Edit

  • Matt Singer
  • February 19, 2010
Oh man, do I loves me some bad dubbing. You know what I’m talking about; when a basic cable channel shows an R rated movie on their station but has…
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