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Me, I'm Steve Head. I co-created the movie news website IGN Filmforce, which is now IGN movies, and that's where much of my writing goes. There, we essentially live and breathe news and interviews. From 1997 to 2000 I was co-editor of TheForce.net - your daily Star Wars news. I've also written for Esquire, Script magazine, and the Boston Phoenix. And from time to time I volunteer at the nonprofit Brattle Theater (http://brattlefilm.org) here in Cambridge, MA. I'm also Editor in Chief of the NewFilmNation.com.

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The Life Cycle of Filmmakers

Movies – David Galenson, Univeristy of Chicago economist and author of Old Masters and Young Geniuses, has studied the creative output of painters, writers, musicians, and poets. And he's boiled down the life cycles of these artists into the two archetypes in his book's title. Wired did a nice job summarizing the distinction in its 2006 profile of Galenson:

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F.C.C. Chairman Favors Penalty on Comcast

News – The head of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that he would recommend that Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, be punished for violating agency principles that guarantee customers open access to the Internet.

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Biographical Dictionary of Film No 44: Andrew Stanton

Movies – I'm thinking of an animated film that might be shattering, tragic and easily win best picture, I'm thinking of the Citizen Kane of animation...

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Spike Lee to film Broadway show

Movies – US director Spike Lee is planning to make a film of the award-winning Broadway musical Passing Strange.

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Weinsteins's Death Defying Acts Opens in Two Theaters

Movies – As the Weinsteins seek financing partners on their prize properties Nine and Inglorious Bastards, the ads for Gillian Armstrong's Houdini movie Death Defying Acts, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Guy Pearce, which grabbed 60 % fresh reviews on Rotten Tomatoes (here's the LAT review), give no sign that it's a Weinstein Co. release.

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Rome Invites Cronenberg, Cimino

Movies – David Cronenberg and Michael Cimino will attend the Rome Film Festival, where Robert De Niro/Al Pacino starrer "Righteous Kill" is expected to unspool in the official selection of the event, which is undergoing some largely cosmetic changes.

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An Interview with Canadian Director Bruce MacDonald

Movies – The midlife of the enfant terrible film director is typically not a pretty sight. What to do when one is no longer un enfant nor half as terrible? Direct Wind at My Back reunion specials?

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'Australia' Projecting a New Image

Movies – As finance tightens, Australian filmmaking gets a chance to do it smarter, writes Garry Maddox...

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Looking for Indy's next MacGuffin

Movies – George Lucas and his MacGuffin squad, Clint Eastwood and his easy-on radio and other loose talk from a movie critic's notebook: HUFFING FOR MACGUFFIN

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Colin Firth: 'I keep getting discovered'

Celebrities – Colin Firth's latest role is another departure. No doubt it will be hailed as a new image. He tells James Mottram that tends to happen a lot...

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The best movie endings ever

Movies – From ET to Casablance, check 'em out...

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Hellboy 101: Comics Style

Movies – Comicbook artists Mike Russell offers his intro to Hellboy...

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Werner Herzog: "Tell me about the iceberg"

Movies – Werner Herzog's documentary "Encounters at the End of the World" is a film about the humans and other creatures who make their homes at the South Pole. It opens July 11 at the Music Box, and is in release around the world. I posed five questions to the great director.

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RT's Dinner and the Movies: Guillermo del Toro

Movies – For an hour we talked about his career past, present and future, and for the first time in Dinner and the Movies' short history, we present the entire experience as video. With our apologies for some technical troubles with sound, over twelve parts which can be watched back-to-back for a full experience...

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Review: Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Movies – Hollywood has been churning out blockbuster cinematic adaptations of comic books stories and their inevitable sequels with the grace and ease of an assembly line that by now they surely have perfected the craft.

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