Author: tederick
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FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE 4K Review: The Personal Is Political
Artistry and identity intertwine in this new restoration of Chen Kaige’s Palme D’Or-winning classic.
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Cognitive load
There’s a lot going on, and once I started to dig in to why I was finding it hard — on a day by day basis — to keep each of the various narratives that I need to keep continuous in my head, I was also blessed enough to remember that we’re all of us,…
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“This fandom is rancid:” an open letter to the Star Wars community
Star Wars has a big problem, and “whether or not the show is good” isn’t it.
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Without firing a shot
It started this week: friends of mine, perfectly good folk, folk who (one would think) would know better, started sending me A.I.-generated art. An alternate version of The Avengers, cast with the stars of the 1990s; The Incredibles as a 1950s sitcom. It’s all possible now — if you have an idea, you can generate…
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BOUND 4K Review: “Criterion Closet Picks” Just Got a Whole Lot Less Closeted
The Wachowskis finally take their place in The Criterion Collection with this week’s release of their debut feature in a gleaming new transfer.
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“What did it cost?”
Covid is over, or hadn’t you heard! Or it was, for like an hour, before the latest spike in cases started. I dunno man. The government released this year’s vaccination guidelines at some point in the spring, and when I read them at the time they seemed to be built around the vague premise that…