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Simpsons jokes and expectations of foreign film exoticism notwithstanding, Shindo Kaneto’s 1960 film The Naked Island has arrived on Blu-ray by way of the Criterion Collection (spine #811). Shindo’s follow-up to that film, Onibaba, remains one of my favourite movies…
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Destroy All Monsters: Mad As A Hatter And Half As Fun
As of today, we cleanly divide Depp’s career into two parts: before Jack Sparrow, and after. Certainly, for my generation and and a lot of other people, Johnny Depp before Jack Sparrow (and, arguably, including at least the first instance…
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Destroy All Monsters: Woody Allen And Rape Culture
Well, here we are again (inasmuch as the word “again” can be applied to a problem that never went away, and which we’ve all known about for as many as twenty years). The subject of a blistering indictment penned by…
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TCAF Findings: THE NAMELESS CITY – I LOVE THIS PART – MOM BODY
Faith Erin Hicks’ The Nameless City was my major draw at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival this year. I’m an avid fan of Hicks’ work and have been following her for nearly a decade (and running into her at a TCAF…
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Destroy All Monsters: Ideals Will Destroy Us All, And Other Things I Learned from CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR
Hard to believe I’ve been writing this column for 3 years – literally feels like I just got started. Naturally, this week, the conversation turns to Civil War.
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Destroy All Monsters: Hey Disney, We Need To Talk About The Shitty Experience Your Release Strategy Is Giving Your Customers
Isn’t the movie being fun, for a movie called Captain America, and as the creators of Batman v. Superman very recently discovered to their detriment… kind of the point? Isn’t that aspect – the movie’s fun – the only marketable…
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My So-Cast Life – Other People’s Mothers
Magic realism continues to be a thing on the recent episodes of My So-Called Life, as Angela takes a spiritual mind-walk into the world of tarot cards by way of Rayanne’s absolutely appalling mother, Amber Vallon. Plus, Patty’s mom shows…
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Destroy All Monsters: GAME OF THRONES Is Better On TV. Who Needs The Books?
I swear to you – I thought I was OUT of this whole thing. The last year and a half really sucked the will to Thrones right out of me. Last night’s premiere, though – the first “post-books” episode –…
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My So-Cast Life – Hallowe’en
Isn’t Hallowe’en, like, the best holiday? Angela thinks so, and so do we, as the opportunity to become someone else proves irresistible for several members of the My So-Called Life squad – including, just maybe, a g-g-g-g-g-g-ghost!!
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Trailer: OMEGA3DRON
After Standoff and Guy in the Sky, I always felt like there was one more Daniel vs. Demetre movie in us somewhere – in the basement, as it were. Well, basement time is officially here.