Author: tederick
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VHS Nostalgia, Part I
I don’t think you all realize how good tapes were. You’d have a tape. Big, wodgy thing. The size of a book, made of licorice. Inevitably noisy — predetermined to clatter, especially if you dropped one, which, don’t worry, they were basically indestructible, until they weren’t. The machines that handled them were noisy too: sound…
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Blu-ray Review: TIME, Spellbinding Work Of Lived, and Living, Memory
Director Garrett Bradley explodes her documentary to consider the breadth and weight of the years of an incarcerated family. Read more
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Pitching woo at DOOM PATROL
Doom Patrol got me through* the pandemic — along with all the other things that got me through the pandemic. Roll20. Pumpkin enzyme face masks. Ten years’ worth of whiskey. “Downtime” for iOS. But yeah. Doom Patrol. *it’s not over
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Review: NO TIME TO DIE
WHICH ONE IS THIS?: You Only Live Once WHO’S IN THIS ONE?: Craig (Bond); Fiennes (M); Harris (Moneypenny); Whishaw (Q, now canonically gay); Wright (Leiter).
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Blu-ray Review: With Bittersweet Timing, Criterion Unveils MELVIN VAN PEEBLES: ESSENTIAL FILMS
The five-disc set holds six feature films and abundant additional material to honour the late director, a voracious and pluralistic cinematic voice. Read more
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Blu-ray Review: LOVE & BASKETBALL Still A Gem, 20 Years Later
They meet at age 11, when she moves into the neighbourhood and he — mistaking her, at first, for a boy — lets her join a pickup basketball game. When she shakes out her hair and proceeds to kick his ass on the court, Quincy (played as a young man by Glenndon Chapman and as…
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Blu-ray Review: STREETWISE and TINY, Criterion’s Latest Double Feature, Spans A Lifetime
Filmmakers Mary Ellen Mark and Martin Bell paint a picture of a street kid, and the adult she became. Read more
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Blu-ray Review: FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI, An Opium-Fogged Reverie
Mesmerizing, fascinating, and makes me want to get deeply into opium. My full review is up on Screen Anarchy: screenanarchy.com/2021/05/blu-ray-review-flowers-of-shanghai-an-opium-fogged-reverie.html
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Fury Road Update #14
The last one! I swear! Read it here.