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Blu-ray Review: Two Years Later, BOYHOOD Ends On Criterion
Almost as soon as Boyhood was released in June of 2014, Richard Linklater was promising audiences that a Criterion Collection release was forthcoming – which made fans of the collection all the more disappointed when an (admittedly decent) studio Blu-ray appeared instead. And although Patricia Arquette went on to win the Oscar for Best Supporting…
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My So-Cast Life: Episode 18 – Weekend
The parents head out to the countryside to “reconnect” (*bone) and Angela and Danielle are left home alone, Kevin McAllister style, in the hilarious penultimate episode of My So-Called Life. Have you got your tickets for our LIVE final episode yet? Listen in for details!
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Destroy All Monsters: HBO’s WESTWORLD and the “Entertainment” of Sexual Violence
Trigger warning, sexual violence (and spoilers too, I guess, if you don’t want the first fifteen minutes of the first episode of Westworld spoiled for you): at the end of the Westworld pilot’s extended opening fake-out, a human man drags a robot female into a barn, presumably to rape her. He tells her, as he is…
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Destroy All Monsters: MOONLIGHT and Having a Flow Experience in the Cinema
I have a spot. A favourite spot, in Cinema 1 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, which is not my favourite movie theatre, but is in the top five. This spot is up in the balcony, way over on the left wing, right up at the front. It is a weird little high seat, all on…
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Destroy All Monsters: The Normalized Atrocities of Julia Ducournau’s RAW
Last Monday night’s screening in the Midnight Madness program at the Toronto International Film Festival gained a week’s worth of notoriety when The Hollywood Reporter announced that three people had fainted during the show and were taken away in an ambulance.
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Destroy All Monsters: In the Blind Land of Nostalgia, STRANGER THINGS Is King
As I’ve mentioned before, the best movie of the summer wasn’t a movie; it was an 8-part Netflix serial about kids hanging out in the ’80s, caught (unbeknownst to them) in the plot of a Steven Spielberg movie. In a summer where an actual Steven Spielberg movie couldn’t compete with Stranger Things, we’ve officially entered…
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Destroy All Monsters: TIFF, Cinephiles, And The Entitled Fury Of Learning You’re Not The Audience Any More
I live in Toronto, and for most of my 20s and half of my 30s, the Toronto International Film Festival was one of the major milestones of my year – so much so that even today, the vast majority of people in my life presume without being told that I am simply unavailable to them…
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My So-Cast Life: Episode 16 – Resolutions
Very special announcement in today’s episode – we are doing a LIVE SHOW on October 22! Mark your calendars!
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Destroy All Monsters: We Need to Have a Long Look At Our WEINER
Elyse Sternberg and Josh Kriegman’s Weiner opens with a quote from Marshall McLuhan – “the name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers” – which we might just as well paraphrase to: may the gods help those whose names write the jokes themselves. Weiner is one of the year’s great films,…