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In the coming weeks, I’ll be writing and featuring more content related to the Wizard World Comic Con in Philadelphia, running May 31st to June 3rd. This will ultimately culminate with a number of con-floor reports, some fan and creator interviews, and thoughts on the random panels I’ll be attending there. Some featured guests include …
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Production design doesn’t equal a story. You can have the most beautiful costume design, drop dead gorgeous sets, amazing special effects, but if the story is boring and clichéd? Your movie is going to be boring and clichéd. Now, to be fair, this approach has worked well for Tim Burton in recent years, so I …
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Why do sports movies fascinate us? By “us”, I mean Americans. There is a constant stream of sports-related films in US theaters, all with the same basic arc (with some distinct variations): team is brought together (or individual is brought to team), usually with no conceivable chance of winning, yet through work and perseverance they …
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“Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-dan Armada.” 1984′s The Last Starfighter was a movie out of time. The first movie to use CGI exclusively for its special effects (obviously excluding make up & explosions), it presaged all of today’s blockbuster action films, …
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I don’t normally get super angry at films. I mean, I dislike them, I hate them, I hate ON them. But I rarely get actually physically ANGRY at one. Jay Weidner’s Kubrick’s Odssey part 1 is the rare exception. And I don’t even think it’s possible for me to put into text form how actually …
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So, I try to make these columns about more than just “Holy crap, you guys, this movie is awesome.” I want to find a theme, a through-line, something to write about other than how much I liked it and wasn’t it cool when Batman punched that dude in the face and said something quippy and …
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We all contain multitudes. That’s what Whitman said, right? All of us are many people. Daughter, sister, mother, aunt, coworker, friend, acquaintance, enemy… all in one body & mind. Every day, we put on our faces and go into our lives and live out the parts we’ve assigned ourselves, and think nothing of the different …
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The Hellboy films of Guilermo del Toro bear increasingly little resemblance to their source material as they go, and this, I feel, is for the better. They show all the hallmarks of del Toro’s signature style, a mix of fantasy and horror, with nightmare imagery and dream logic combining with his love of the gross …
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What responsibility do we have to history? Should it be something held up as sacrosanct, or is it as malleable an object as the truth appears to be? History is written by the winners, it is said, but what’s to keep that from being later rewritten, and underscored, and struck through, and deleted, and retyped …
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Death is an inevitability. We all are born, we all live, and we all eventually must die. Different people handle it differently, though. There are those who scream against the injustice, those who mourn what was yet undone, those who regret past actions, those who weep bitter tears for others lost, and those who wish …
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