Author: tederick
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What if I just wrote it?, part II
“I picked an all-timer of a year to break into professional screenwriting,” has been the joke for the past few months’ worth of coffee conversations with interesting people. This was less about the since-resolved strike and more about the fact that, strike or no strike, the “money gun” of streaming expansion has been, likely permanently,…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “The Last Generation”
This entry was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, this television series wouldn’t exist. To learn more, visit the SAG-AFTRA strike site. “Different, certainly; but certainly not better.” Almost thirty years ago, CityTV in Toronto books out the SkyDome (back when it was called that), and shows…
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4K Review: THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, Peter Bogdanovich’s American Elegy
The Criterion Collection continues to build out their appreciable stack of 4K UHD releases with a new 3-disc edition of Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show, featuring the 1971 film on both 4K and blu-ray platters, and an additional blu-ray for the lesser-loved 1990 sequel, Texasville.
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Vox”
This entry was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, this television series wouldn’t exist. To learn more, visit the SAG-AFTRA strike site. “We’ve been here before.” I’ve used the phrase “creative project” a lot while rewatching Star Trek: Picard. Many of my entries have gone to trying…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Surrender”
This entry was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, this television series wouldn’t exist. To learn more, visit the SAG-AFTRA strike site. “Fucking solids.” The gang’s all here, at last — whereas “The Bounty” technically featured all seven core crew members from Star Trek: The Next Generation,…
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My beloved marvels
Look, it sucks. For all the degree to which I’ve maintained — since Iron Man! — that the MCU films are intended, and absorbed on my end, as entertaining Saturday-morning confections, it still bums me out to watch the whole thing fall apart in front of me, because I loved this thing. Part of my…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Dominion”
This entry was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, this television series wouldn’t exist. To learn more, visit the SAG-AFTRA strike site. “So… I’ve been weighing the morality of something.” A funny thing happened on the way to writing last week’s recap: my web site crashed, quite…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “The Bounty”
This entry was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, this television series wouldn’t exist. To learn more, visit the SAG-AFTRA strike site. “Can someone explain why a 19th-century villain is guarding a 25th-century black site?” A whole-ass reunion episode, “The Bounty” brings everyone in the Next Generation…
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The fat of the land
Sometimes I’m loading up my pill organizer and I look at those jewel-bright yellow and pink capsules in my hand and I am once again flattened with joy that I live here, now, and not in the 99.975% of human history in which antidepressants and thyroid medication didn’t exist yet. I spent some of the…
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Blogging the Next Generation — Picard: “Imposters”
This entry was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, this television series wouldn’t exist. To learn more, visit the SAG-AFTRA strike site. “Oh, I have been rehearsing this conversation for thirty years.” The big fan-service reactivation I was stumping for in season three of Star Trek: Picard…