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Top 5 – Doomed Romances

Date: Thu, 22 Dec, 2011 at 12:47 PM | Author: Spencer Fornaciari | Category: Audio Extras, MacGuffin Content, Top 5's, Web Exclusive

Another Top 5 segment from The MacGuffin. This time Allen and Brandi share their top 5 doomed romances.

This segment is also available on Stitcher and iTunes. The audio version can be downloaded directly from here. After you’ve watched the video please vote in our poll and share which one you think is the best.

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An Appreciation – Children of Men

Date: Sun, 12 Jun, 2011 at 01:39 PM | Author: Allen Almachar | Category: An Appreciation, MacGuffin Content, MacGuffin Spotlight

The beginning of Alfonso Cuaron’s great film, Children of Men (2006), is like a cinematic wake up call, slapping us right in the face to gain our attention. We see a man in a coffee shop ordering a drink. A group of people huddle together, tensely watching a televised news broadcast. This is a world that has fallen into chaos, but while everyone clamors to see what is happening to their society, this man simply shrugs it off, grabs his drink, and starts heading out of the shop. But what he doesn’t realize is that his world is quickly shrinking, and that very soon he’ll have to make a choice to do something about it or succumb to oblivion. In one unbroken shot, we see the man walk out into the busy street, and then, all of a sudden, a large explosion erupts from the very shop he was in just moments before. The problems of humanity have caught up to him, and now he must act.

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Narration in Nicholas Ray’s Noir “In A Lonely Place” (1950)

Date: Wed, 2 Mar, 2011 at 12:38 PM | Author: Mark Jones | Category: MacGuffin Content, MacGuffin Spotlight

To continue the MacGuffin’s discussion of film noir, I’m looking in detail at Nicholas Ray’s In A Lonely Place (1950), a classic picture with a couple of cracking performances from Humphrey Bogart and Martha Stewart and a drunk man who recites Shakespeare.

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An Appreciation – Casablanca

Date: Wed, 22 Sep, 2010 at 09:07 AM | Author: Allen Almachar | Category: An Appreciation, MacGuffin Content

“We’ll always have Paris” – Rick Blaine

If there was a vote taken to choose only one film from the 20th century to preserve for future generations to experience, my guess is that Casablanca (1942) would be that film.  It is so iconic, so memorable, so enjoyable to watch, that it’s no wonder that it is one of the most popular entertainments ever made.  The film has been copied and parodied so often that people know of it without ever seeing it.  The story of Rick, Ilsa, Victor Laszlo, and their love triangle is one of the most famous stories ever seen on screen; it is a representation of all that is great with the movies.

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