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I’m so fascinated
Even if I hadn’t quit my job this year, I think this summer’s strike actions by the Writer’s Guild of America and the Screen Actor’s Guilt / AFTRA would feel like a central idea in … well, everything. My relationship to my own career, both where I’ve been and where I now want it to…
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What if we threw a twitter and nobody came?
Price shot me an invite for Bluesky and I joined (fuckos, I had been on that waiting list for months!). All this turned out opportune, timingwise, because Meta’s threads thing launched, I think, a day and a half later or something. I joined that too — my cold war against the other tedericks require that…
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Phase Four
So, let’s get into it: what happened with Marvel? Let’s start with some obligatory table-setting: following Phase Three (and, specifically, Avengers: Endgame) would have been a monumental creative challenge for any studio, product line, or storyteller; take your pick for which one you consider Marvel Studios to be. One proposal which makes absolute sense in…
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The wizards of speed and time
I. VCR My weird friend Miller got into swap meets and Marie Kondo last year, after moving to the Goo, which I guess is a thing that happens when you move to the Goo. I don’t trade much in swap meets, but I casually mentioned that I was after a working VCR, having somehow managed…
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What if I just wrote it?
Here’s the thing: as soon as the phrase “machine learning” was on the table, any human being with a brain should have been so freaked out that they smashed all of their electronic devices with a hammer. We weren’t, and we didn’t, and now here we are: the beginning of the actual era where, to…
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Best of a bad batch
Are we there yet? Are we at the point where we, as a citizenry, can acknowledge that The Mandalorian is pretty bad now… and that it wasn’t ever, actually, particularly good? My own stance on the series has been: it was good, not great, weekly Star Wars. It was amiable enough to begin with, and…
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An open letter in support of independent cinemas in Canada
Dear MP Marci Ien, MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam, Minister Pablo Rodriguez, and Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne, Do you support The Revue Cinema, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Imagine Cinemas Market Square, and the Ontario Place Cinesphere? I’ve been enjoying great movies at great cinemas since, literally, as far back as I can remember. My first memory is of my…
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“The fun part of winter is over”
The fun part of winter is over. After it was over, it snowed for 30 weeks, and the cat got a toothache, and all the matches on Hinge were unappealing. I applied for Survivor. (Legitimately this time.) Everything Everywhere won Best Picture and somehow became a Dad Movie, instantly, overnight. I survived a shitty February…
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What Star Trek isn’t
Like many from the TNG Generation, I’m enjoying the third season of Star Trek: Picard, although — like, I’m hoping, at least a few of us — I feel a bit silly about it. I’m aware that, for example, my visceral glee at the prologue of the first episode was largely due to the fact…
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THE BENEDICT CHRONICLES (Lakeview)
“Hence, the Benedict Chronicles…” The Lakeview is closing, or so we were told; and so the Mod Squad (minus D-To) reassembled, like broken Avengers action figures, in the cold white light of winter to avail ourselves of a final omelette. They don’t serve those anymore, as it turns out, but that’s ok; they’re not actually…