Tag: MOVIES
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Going Negative:
The Social Ramifications of Media Criticism Shortly before Birdman won best picture, I was ranting on Facebook about how I find the films of Alejandro Inarritu to be pretentious and self-serious. I also used the word bloviated. This provoked some ire amongst my friendly acquaintances, and some playful verbal fencing online. A couple of wasted…
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SUCCESSION ’80
RECASTING THE STARS OF THE HIT HBO SHOW WITH THEIR APPROPRIATE COUNTERPARTS FROM THE YEAR 1980.
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What It’s Like To Star In A Movie With Your Mom When Your Mom Is Tilda Swinton
The amount of research and preparation she did before I was even conceived, I think, to a lot of people, would be excessive, but as Tilda always told me about acting, which was pretty much the only thing she was ever really interested in talking to me about, never boys, or god forbid-my feelings, was…
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La La Land was better than Moonlight and other thoughts on Wonder Woman 2
Maybe having Wonder Woman lead a squad of grizzled BIPOC/LGBTQ though still male-presenting mercenaries through the harrowing trenches of WWI to stop a disfigured manufacturer of poison gases is just what little girls need.
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How I Am Teaching My Small Daughters to Play Patriarchy Chicken
Anyway, they didn’t charge our youngest with assault for holding the Bowie knife to the Sheriff’s throat and threatening to bite off his ear. Though threatening a police officer is against the law, the Sheriff was so impressed with my girls survival skills that he didn’t see a point in pressing charges. He even told…
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Punching Down And Out:
If The Brothers Grimsby were set in America (as maybe The Brothers Elkhart; or The Brothers Ypsilanti— I’m trying to stay in the rustbelt and avoid simple southern stereotypes like The Brothers Lynchburg, Tennesee) Cohen’s character Nobby Butcher and his many fat and drunken mates would very likely have been Trump supporters.
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Super Heroes, Minor Problems
Five hours without proper hydration is just silly, so is carrying excess water weight in a metal suit filled with circuitry. I had Jarvis build in a mini treatment plant which is basically a sealed charged line coming off the arc reactor (thumps chest) that ionizes any liquid