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A real deep-dive this week, as we tackle my favourite episode of My So-Called Life, “The Substitute” – including a very special not-quite-a-diary entry, and many rhapsodic talkings with respect to my high school English teacher, who definitely would not…
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Destroy All Monsters: My Team’s Better Than Your Team, So There
Kind of proud of this one, mostly because it started as an all-out rant about internet argument culture and somehow metastasized into an appreciation of how the DC Expanded Universe, through its Infinite Earths model, might actually be a better…
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Welcome to T17
It’s official – Tederick.com has been migrated to WordPress, receiving its first new look n’ feel in more than half a decade.
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My So-Cast Life – The Zit
So Sharon’s life is, like, developing, and so are her boobs, and so is a big gross zit on Angela’s chin, and so is Patty’s need to bond with her daughter through ill-advised beauty contests. It’s a mess! Let’s all…
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Destroy All Monsters: In DAREDEVIL’s Battle Of Fanboy Wet Dreams, Elektra Wins
There are problems with Marvel’s Daredevil. I am an unabashed fan of the show – I have called its first season the best thing Marvel Entertainment has ever done, and its newly-released second season easily lives up to the benchmark…
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My So-Cast Life – Father Figures
What do the IRS, banana cream pie, the Grateful Dead and the way we feel about our fathers have in common? Easy: it’s the fourth episode of My So-Called Life, where we go deep on Angela’s relationship with Graham in…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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