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The thing is, I suspect that what a filmmaker turns in to Warner Brothers and what we actually end up seeing on the screen are pretty far apart. If 2016’s DCEU offerings are anything to go by, the studio wouldn’t…
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Destroy All Monsters: Don’t Ruin Christmas The Way You Killed Summer, Hollywood
I’m as against the early proliferation of holiday decorations as the next man, and when I saw the tinsel going up in my local drug store last week – on October 25, and hanging, grotesquely, above the jack-o’-lanterns – I…
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My So-Cast LIVE!
If you’ve spent this whole season thinking that the only things My So-Cast Life was missing were a live audience and a third, even smarter voice at the table, are you in for a treat! We wrap up our podcast…
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Destroy All Monsters: As THE WALKING DEAD Reminds Us, The Apocalypse Is Going To Be Disappointing Too
“The fantasy of the end of the world only succeeds as a fantasy (or even as a horror story, if that’s what The Walking Dead is) if it offers an outcome more elevated than the one we have right now.…
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My So-Cast Life: Episode 19 – In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
Doing the final (regular) episode of My So-Cast Life was a surprisingly emotional experience, possibly because it had us confront a super-emotional final (definitely) episode of My So-Called Life!
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Destroy All Monsters: LUKE CAGE, Democracy, and the Voices Outside the Majority
I’m not a political writer, though like many professionals and non-professionals on the pop culture beat this year, it’s been difficult to hold back some political views.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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My So-Cast Life: Episode 17 – Betrayal
Name a more iconic duo. I’ll wait
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