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Top 5 – Tearjerkers

Date: Thu, 9 Feb, 2012 at 12:14 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 tearjerkers.

This segment is also available on Stitcher, iTunes, and YouTube. 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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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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Vertigo – An Appreciation

Date: Thu, 26 Aug, 2010 at 11:07 AM | Author: Allen Almachar | Category: An Appreciation, Film Reviews, MacGuffin Content

He is known as “The Master of Suspense,” or quite simply, “The Master.”  His influence can be seen from filmmakers all over the world, in movies made as recently as today.  Even people who are not film buffs recognize his name; he has become a staple of modern pop culture, equal to the likes of Marilyn Monroe or James Dean.  Alfred Hitchcock is one of the few great directors that successfully fused an artistic sensibility with suspenseful, high entertainment.  He did this so well and so often, in fact, that he could be accused of being a one trick pony, which couldn’t be any further from the truth.  Hitchcock was a master of film technique, priding himself in the ability of manipulating an audience to think and feel whatever he wanted them to.  This is seen in many, if not all, of his films, none more so than his masterpiece, Vertigo (1958).

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