Author: tederick
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Destroy All Monsters: The Meme-ification of ROGUE ONE
I’m consistently fascinated by how pop cultural mega-properties take hold in the discourse of the group they are ostensibly created for, the fans. There’s an interesting cycle created here.
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Blu-ray Review: Criterion Enshrines Ousmane Sembène’s BLACK GIRL
After years of having it on my watchlist, I caught up with Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène’s Moolaadé last year and enjoyed it a great deal, leaving me hungry for more. The Criterion Collection has conveniently sailed in to quench the thirst, with its January 24 release of Sembene’s first feature film, Black Girl, which joins…
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Destroy All Monsters: JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS, A Weird Experiment With Fan Engagement
It’s 2017 and the world’s going to shit so naturally here I am prattling about JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS.
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The Best Films of 2016
My annual roundup list is now available on Letterboxd: http://letterboxd.com/tederick/list/the-best-films-of-2016/
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Best of 2016: Comics
Best series: Ms. Marvel (G. Willow Wilson) Sure, it’s the comic we need right now. A Muslim-American girl superhero is, distressingly, only becoming more and more crucially relevant with each passing day. G. Willow Wilson’s Ms. Marvel is also insanely good, the most consistently engaging (emotionally and otherwise) title in Marvel’s roster, or pretty much anywhere. Like Runaways…
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Destroy All Monsters: Michael Giacchino’s ROGUE ONE Rebellion
Since the announcement four years ago that Disney would buy Lucasfilm and begin making new Star Wars movies, this moment has been inevitable: excepting Kevin Kiner’s fine, fun work on the briefly-theatrically-released Clone Wars pilot, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the first Star Wars feature film with music composed by someone other than…
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Toys 2K16: Report
I turned 40 this year. I mention that only because it’s worth noting that either directly or indirectly, my age drove my toy purchases up – not, I think, in a vain attempt to recapture my youth, but more because as of this year ID(officially)GAF. I make a good keep. I bought a place to live. I…
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Destroy All Monsters: NOCTURNAL ANIMALS Is Sadly On-Point For Women In Hollywood
…This places the film in an unofficial sub-genre: the “intentionally or not” films. I like these. (Die Hard 4 is, “unintentionally or not,” a hell of a movie about how emasculated America felt in the years following 9/11.) In the case of Nocturnal Animals, it’s “intentionally or not, this movie is a working model for…
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Destroy All Monsters: We’re Bad At Confronting News Like The Bertolucci News
On the weekend one of my listeners jumped on the comment thread for my latest podcast episode to voice his disgust at the news that Bernardo Bertolucci had conspired with Marlon Brando to rape Maria Schneider for a scene in Last Tango in Paris. He went on to say that at least Hollywood and the…
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Destroy All Monsters: Why The World (Of SUPERGIRL) Doesn’t Need Superman
Can’t resist any SUPERMAN RETURNS reference, can I