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Best series: Ms. Marvel (G. Willow Wilson) Sure, it’s the comic we need right now. A Muslim-American girl superhero is, distressingly, only becoming more and more crucially relevant with each passing day. G. Willow Wilson’s Ms. Marvel is also insanely good, the…
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Destroy All Monsters: Michael Giacchino’s ROGUE ONE Rebellion
Since the announcement four years ago that Disney would buy Lucasfilm and begin making new Star Wars movies, this moment has been inevitable: excepting Kevin Kiner’s fine, fun work on the briefly-theatrically-released Clone Wars pilot, Rogue One: A Star Wars…
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Toys 2K16: Report
I turned 40 this year. I mention that only because it’s worth noting that either directly or indirectly, my age drove my toy purchases up – not, I think, in a vain attempt to recapture my youth, but more because as…
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Destroy All Monsters: NOCTURNAL ANIMALS Is Sadly On-Point For Women In Hollywood
…This places the film in an unofficial sub-genre: the “intentionally or not” films. I like these. (Die Hard 4 is, “unintentionally or not,” a hell of a movie about how emasculated America felt in the years following 9/11.) In the…
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Destroy All Monsters: We’re Bad At Confronting News Like The Bertolucci News
On the weekend one of my listeners jumped on the comment thread for my latest podcast episode to voice his disgust at the news that Bernardo Bertolucci had conspired with Marlon Brando to rape Maria Schneider for a scene in…
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Destroy All Monsters: Why The World (Of SUPERGIRL) Doesn’t Need Superman
Can’t resist any SUPERMAN RETURNS reference, can I
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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