Author: tederick
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Destroy All Monsters: Filmmakers Need To Get Over The Idea That We Want To Be “Immersed”
I’m as big a fan of high-frame-rate cinema as probably exists in the general audience (i.e. I’m not Doug Trumbull, but I’ve seen Ufotog). Hey, I liked Avatar a hell of a lot, too – 3-D included. Saw it six times in IMAX, for the explicit reason that it was such an inherently transportive big-screen…
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Blu-ray Review: Jump Straight Into Akira Kurosawa’s DREAMS
An anthology film of eight shorts, each purportedly inspired by one of Akira Kurosawa’s eponymous dreams, the film is visually unparalleled in his canon and oftentimes so surreal that it’s better experienced with consciousness-expanding substances. (Lest we forget, this is the one where Martin Scorsese makes a brief cameo as a fast-talking Vincent Van Gogh.)
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Destroy All Monsters: The Tyranny of Straight Lines in ARRIVAL
Here on Earth (both within the film, and out in the real world), time is always a story, and all stories are arranged around it. This happened, then this happened, then this happened. Our entire understanding of psychology is based in how events in the past must have manifested in our troubles of the present;…
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Destroy All Monsters: It’s Not About You, DOCTOR STRANGE
One of the running jokes in Doctor Strange has Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) constantly having to reassert his title to anyone and everyone, because after the accident that shatters his hands sends him scouring the world for a cure, no one will call him “Doctor.” This is a useful line of insight the character, and…
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Destroy All Monsters: I Know How Badly You Want To Screw Up WONDER WOMAN, Warner Brothers, But Please Don’t
The thing is, I suspect that what a filmmaker turns in to Warner Brothers and what we actually end up seeing on the screen are pretty far apart. If 2016’s DCEU offerings are anything to go by, the studio wouldn’t know a good movie if it showed up and kissed them – and they’d work…
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Destroy All Monsters: Don’t Ruin Christmas The Way You Killed Summer, Hollywood
I’m as against the early proliferation of holiday decorations as the next man, and when I saw the tinsel going up in my local drug store last week – on October 25, and hanging, grotesquely, above the jack-o’-lanterns – I grumbled Scroogily to myself. And then I read the (also bizarrely early) holiday special of…
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My So-Cast LIVE!
If you’ve spent this whole season thinking that the only things My So-Cast Life was missing were a live audience and a third, even smarter voice at the table, are you in for a treat! We wrap up our podcast with a special LIVE episode, recorded at The Royal Cinema in Toronto on October 22…
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Destroy All Monsters: As THE WALKING DEAD Reminds Us, The Apocalypse Is Going To Be Disappointing Too
“The fantasy of the end of the world only succeeds as a fantasy (or even as a horror story, if that’s what The Walking Dead is) if it offers an outcome more elevated than the one we have right now. Right now, though, The Walking Dead might be set in the zombie apocalypse but it’s…
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My So-Cast Life: Episode 19 – In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
Doing the final (regular) episode of My So-Cast Life was a surprisingly emotional experience, possibly because it had us confront a super-emotional final (definitely) episode of My So-Called Life!
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Destroy All Monsters: LUKE CAGE, Democracy, and the Voices Outside the Majority
I’m not a political writer, though like many professionals and non-professionals on the pop culture beat this year, it’s been difficult to hold back some political views.