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Sunday, May 31, 2015

Start Your Engines

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There was a guy on Twitter assigning "Mad Max" names the week after Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, directed by George Miller) opened....
Sunday, May 24, 2015

...I Am Rather the Fallen Angel

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Ex Machina (2015, directed by Alex Garland) has the great misfortune of following too soon after Her , a legitimately great film about art...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

Heinlein in Hollywood part 3: Closing the Loop

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Robert A. Heinlein is typically considered one of the grand masters of the so-called "Golden Age of Science Fiction," that period...
Friday, May 15, 2015

Heinlein In Hollywood part 2

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It was perhaps inevitable that Hollywood would come calling on the Robert A. Heinlein estate in the early 1990s. The previous decade had se...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Heinlein in Hollywood

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I saw a story on the internet a few months back about the demolition of Ray Bradbury's house. It sold a while ago for $1.7 million and ...
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Sunday, May 03, 2015

The Pull List, early 2015

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In honor of the new Avengers movie (review soon), I thought I'd give you a run-down of what comics I read month to month. As you might ...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Dog Eat Dog

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I'm conflicted about the Dardenne brothers' latest film, Two Days, One Night (2014). On the one hand, I think that in spite of the...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

Monstrous Feminine

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David Cronenberg has always included a strain of horror toward women and female sexuality in his films. The monstrous feminine often manife...
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Saturday, April 18, 2015

Backward Glances

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Horror movies are going through one of their periodic revivals right now. The last eighteen months or so have been particularly fertile for...
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Friday, April 10, 2015

Blogorama: 2015 edition

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I'll be joining two blogathons in the next month or so. Both of them are old friends. The first one is the periodic For the Love of Fil...
Sunday, April 05, 2015

True/False 2015: Across the Rio Grande

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Cartel Land (2015, directed by Matthew Heineman) and Western (2015, directed by Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross) are so thematically similar...
Monday, March 30, 2015

True/False 2015: Almost Famous

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"Fuckery and shenanigans." That's how the sister of one of the antagonists in Finders Keepers (2015, directed by Bryan Carbe...
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Sunday, March 29, 2015

True/False 2015: A Better Tomorrow

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Another persistent subject of the contemporary documentary zeitgeist are the lives of people--particularly children--who squat in the ruins...
Saturday, March 28, 2015

Myths, Stories, and Songs

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Song of the Sea (2014, directed by Tomm Moore) expands on the design aesthetic of Moore's The Secret of Kells , while diving even deep...
Friday, March 27, 2015

True/False 2015: A Bitter Almond

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Director Adam Curtis claims that he's a journalist, not an artist. There's a presumption in this idea that the two are mutually exc...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

True/False 2015: Remote Control

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Documentaries about the "War on Terror" seem like a permanent fixture in the contemporary film landscape. So long as horrible thi...

True/False 2015: Poison Pens

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I'm late to the party this year when it comes to writing about the 2015 edition of the True/False Film Festival. The delay was unavoida...
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Monday, March 02, 2015

The Devil, You Say?

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Alexandre Aja is a director who is never likely to live up to his promise. I'm not a fan of his signature film, Haute Tension , but I c...
Sunday, March 01, 2015

Ministers of Grace

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My first impression of Calvary (2014, directed by John Michael McDonagh) was that it was deadpan religious noir. It's a film that atte...
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Monday, February 16, 2015

Jumpin' Jupiter

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While I was watching the Wachowskis' new film, Jupiter Ascending (2015), I realized that Lilly and Lana Wachowski are acutely aware of...
Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Imitation of Life

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The Imitation Game (2014, directed by Morten Tyldum) aims to right an historical wrong. It postulates that the mathematician, Alan Turing,...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Gray Men, Gray World

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When I was sixteen, my parents gave me an omnibus edition of John le Carré's Karla novels ( Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable S...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

Rhythm Method

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Back when I was just out of college, I had a conversation with some friends over a game of spades about what you would have to score on the...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Rethinking the American Canon

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Sometime last year, I finally started tagging posts in which I write about films by women. There is well-documented bias in the film indust...
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Sunday, January 04, 2015

Revenge of the Nerds

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Big Hero 6 (2014, directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams) is suggestive of why Disney bought Marvel a few years ago. They see potential b...
Thursday, January 01, 2015

Hindsight is 20/20

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It's customary for people who write about film to do retrospectives this time of the year. I'll make up a top whatever list eventua...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

December Potpourri

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I'm behind on my reviews again. Here's a round-up of what I've seen recently:
Friday, December 26, 2014

There and Back Again

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There's a scene near the very end of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014, directed by Peter Jackson) that highlights the s...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Superhero Blues

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Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu), like many of the director's films, s...
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Wednesday, December 03, 2014

If That Mockingjay Won't Sing...

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The third film in the Hunger Games series suffers dramatically from being only half a movie. I mean that literally. The Hunger Games: Mock...
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