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- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
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- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
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Category Archives: Cinema
Separate But Equal
From Bubble Bobble to Bioshock Infinite, Samuel Sattin explores the evolution of modern gaming, and how it’s come to share in a tenuous relationship with its cousin in cables: film. Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Popular Culture, The Arts
Tagged Assassin's Creed, Bioshock Infinite, Bubble Bobble, cinema, Pacific Rim, Video Games
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Entertainment in Flight
Nathaniel Missildine on Steven Soderbergh, in-flight movies, and the state of the current cinema. Continue reading
Posted in Cinema
Tagged Alfred Molina, Iron Man 3, Silver Linings Playbook, Steven Soderbergh
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My Year of Horror: Strange May Flowers
April showers of blood bring strange May flowers in Tom Gualtieri’s month of hybrid horror. Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, My Year of Horror
Tagged 3 Extremes, Ben Whishaw, best horror films, Bob Clark, Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Deathdream, Dustin Hoffman, Fruit Chan Park Chan-wook, horror, Janette Scott, Perfume, Science Fiction, Society, Susan Sarandon, Takashi Miike, The Day of the Triffids, The Hunger, The Pact, Three Extremes, Tony Scott, Zohra Lampert
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The Book Is Not The Movie
On being a screenwriter vs. a writer, Matthew Specktor navigates Hollywood and the emotional pitfalls of bringing The Transit of Venus to the screen. Or not. Continue reading
Posted in Cinema
Tagged Fight Club, Matthew Specktor, screenwriting, shirley hazzard, The Transit of Venus
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Burt Reynolds and Jean-Luc Godard: Blood Brothers?
Could Smokey and the Bandit II be a lost avant garde classic? Patrick Wensink compares it scene for scene with Godard’s Weekend and finds surprising similarities. Continue reading
Posted in Cinema
Tagged Burt Reynolds, elephants, film, Jean-Luc Godard, Patrick Wensink, Smokey and the Bandit, Weekend
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My Year of Horror: March Madness
Your shrink will have a field day with this month’s twisted psychotics, neurotics and schizophrenics, coming around to fill your life with horror. Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, My Year of Horror, The Arts
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Anna Massey, Catherine Deneuve, Emeric Pressberger, Frenzy, Hitchcock, James Caan, Kathy Bates, Lauren Bacall, Michael Biehn, Michael Powell, Moira Shearer, Pino Donaggio, Powell & Pressberger, Repulsion, Rob Reiner, Roman Polanski, Stephen King, The Fan, The Red Shoes, William Goldman
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The Academy Awards Awards
We break down the REAL winners and losers from last night’s extravaganza. Continue reading
