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Science fiction double feature, part 2
I just wanted to follow up on some of the ideas I was pondering earlier today, about the science fiction genre in general and some of my personal favorite themes in specific. Ashley was saying earlier...
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As seen on TV: the style and politics of infomercials
Prepare yourself to enter a strange world. A world where human hands are incapable of accomplishing everyday tasks without creating huge messes. A world where said hands and said messes are in black...
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Satire, Americana, and the Death Race
In the opening monologue of Patton, George C. Scott intones, “Americans love a winner, and will not tolerate a loser.” In the year 2000, Americans have found their winner, and his name is...
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Images of Southland Tales
Since I’m slowly at work on like 3 different reviews and other writing projects, I don’t have any actual new content today. But I did recently review Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales (2007) for 366...
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Upsides and downsides
[Note: I am really sick right now. So for added humor, imagine me saying all of this with a stuffed-up nose and sore throat.] Part of being a film critic (or whatever it is I am here) is reevaluating...
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Screwball Sci-fi in The Fifth Element
Luc Besson’s sci-fi epic The Fifth Element (1997) is a mixed bag of a movie: it has a lot to offer, but it’s very strangely packaged, and there’s a lot of extraneous fluff. It bounces back and forth...
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Edgar G. Ulmer and Sci-fi Noir
I always love a good time travel yarn. I double love it if it’s directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, who made one of my all-time favorite noirs, Detour (1945). So I had high personal expectations for Beyond...
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Link Dump: #22
Crookshanks may be half-Kneazle, but he’s still a KITTY! so voilà, here he is. Look at that cute, flattened face and orange fur! Magic kitty! As you may have noticed, we’ve had something of a posting...
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