Author: tederick
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Destroy All Monsters: INDIANA JONES 5 Should Be About Short Round
Shorty was played by Ke Huy Quan (now Jonathan Ke Quan) in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. An orphan from the streets of Shanghai, caught trying to pick Indy’s pocket, Shorty quickly becomes the Indiana Jones equivalent of a gentleman’s gentleman: sidekick extraordinaire, minder of Indy’s kit, and keeper of Dr. Jones’ conscience.
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Blu-ray Review: Mega-Length, Little-Seen A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY Arrives On Criterion
Fellow TwitchFilm writer Kurt Halfyard knows of my overwhelming fondness for cinematic experiences of unusual length. He and I will often seek out the one ticket in the Toronto International Film Festival’s annual program that will see us sitting in the darkened Cinema 4 till our posteriors have gone numb and most normal folks would…
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My So-Cast Life – Guns and Gossip
My So-Cast Life is back and it’s better than ever! Meh, actually, I don’t know if that’s true because I basically think every single episode is excellent. This week it’s “Guns and Gossip,” the episode where Rickie really comes into his own. Important shit this time out. SPLAT! We’d hate to be that soda can. Sweetly…
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Destroy All Monsters: HOUSE OF CARDS In American Upside-Down Land
Like many of you, I spent the weekend turning down the volume on the real-life political soap opera that has overtaken the United States and watched Netflix’s House of Cards instead. You have to feel sorry for House of Cards this year, a little bit: in the 3 years since the series debuted, its TV-as-novel…
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My So-Cast Life – Dancing in the Dark
I jump from Sandy to Nicki in this week’s horribly embarrassing journal entry and am called upon once again to reflect that maybe I should have vetted these diaries before pushing ahead with this podcast. Well, whatever. Plus: Kat continues to reframe MSCL for me in truly amazing ways – this week it’s about Angela’s…
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My So-Cast Life – Pilot
We are once again in the iTunes store! And here’s an updated RSS feed for all you freestylers: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MySo-castLifeTederickcom/MattBrown Though it pains me to have a picture of fuckin’ Jordan on my blog, I am happy to announce the arrival of the new podcast!! Overshare alert: NOT ONLY do Kat and I review every single…
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Destroy All Monsters: “Our Lot In Life” – Droid Personhood In STAR WARS
The question of gender as it relates to droids is interesting, if only in how it connects to the other, less-discussed aspect of these characters from the Star Wars saga: the status of their personhood. Gender is one of the great convocations of personhood; or at least, one of the most significant rubrics by which…
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Blu-ray Review: DOWNHILL RACER Snaps Into Sharp Focus On Criterion
Here’s what the Criterion Collection is good for: equal parts enshrining of significant milestones in the art of film (see last week’s review of Ikiru), and the championing of striking works of filmcraft that have somehow slipped from the narrative of classic works.
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Review: SPECTRE
From A to Bond was a countdown rewatch, in alphabetical order, of the James Bond movies, which I wrote for The Substream leading up to the release of SKYFALL in 2012. I’ve continued the format for the SPECTRE review, and will probably continue doing so till I (live and let) die.
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Tatttooo: if she be worthy
I waited thirty years to get my first tattoo and seven more to get my second; tattoo #3 follows #2 at a hair-raising 15 months, and was also the shortest inception-to-ink turnaround in my life. If Tumblr is to be believed – and this will be a story of Tumblr, among other things – I…