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A photo finish: was film, or TV, the narrative medium of the decade?
My best of the year and best of the decade lists for film will be on Letterboxd before the end of the year, but by the end of September I was also aware of another, marginally more unsettling feeling: that TV had eclipsed, or come very close to eclipsing, film as the storytelling art form…
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The Best Films Of 2018: My Ballot
The OFCS is collecting its nominations today. Here’s how I voted:
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TIFF loves TIFFR
Very happy to get TIFF and TIFFR a little closer together for (their) tenth anniversary, as TIFF ’18 is about to begin! More here: https://www.tiff.net/the-review/we-love-tiffr/
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I am enjoying the CRAP out of my Patreon.
The tiers are more expensive than anyone will ever pay (at least, at a monthly subscription rate) and I’m quite disappointed no one went in for “Barbossa’s Daughter,” but having a Patreon page that almost no one supports is still a) keeping me on-point on my creative projects in a way that I don’t entirely…
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The Toy Report: 2017
I don’t think I’ve enjoyed collecting this much in over a decade. I may honestly have taken it a bit too far; new job, new outlook on life, living high on the hog and buying every goddamn thing I set my eyes on. I cancelled a few pre-orders; re-sold a few things that showed up…
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Why Rey
“I didn’t know there was this much green in the whole galaxy.” I take inordinate ownership of Rey. Not ownership in the “I made her” sense, but rather, in that she is my representative in the Star Wars universe. I don’t know if it’s true that when I was a kid, I dreamed of a female Jedi, following…
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On the art of missing BLADE RUNNER 2
I decided pretty early on that I wouldn’t be going to see Blade Runner 2049, long before it was called that, or before Denis Villeneuve was announced to direct it (certainly, one of my “must see” filmmakers in this decade), or before all of it, really. The decision was twofold. In the first part was a…
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Destroy All Monsters: All Monsters Destroyed
“All Monsters Destroyed?” Well no, of course not. I wish the things that became the common themes in my weekly column at Screen Anarchy over the course of the past 4+ years could be called “resolved” — but really, they’ve just become part and parcel of the fabric of our conversations around pop culture in ever-increasing…
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The Box And How To Use It
Historically, I do not do well in winters. Perhaps you don’t either. A couple of years ago I started taking my mood disorder seriously, and this past summer was when I figured I ought to start taking winter, specifically, seriously as well. I decided to, and I quote, “take the fight to winter.” This was…