Wednesday, February 17, 2010

A Serious Man

Aerial Act

There is a God and he is pissed.

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Up

Film’s New Adventure

Pixar’s Defense of Animation

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Friday, September 04, 2009
Faust woodcut

Sympathy for the Devil

Dorothy Sayers and the American Faust Film

How a British Detective Novelist Can Help Us Understand an American Film Obsession

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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Watchmen, the movie, poster

Watchmen

Semiotic Superheroes

On the verge of a new kind of visual storytelling.

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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
DVD Cover: The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon

Stegasaurus!

Some heavy spade-work into the magick of the classic noir.

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Sunday, August 24, 2008
The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight

The Three Versions of Batman

Have the Nolan Brothers been reading Borges?

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Sunday, August 10, 2008
You Do Not Talk About Fight Club (book cover)

A Copy of a Copy of a Copy

The Matrix, American Beauty, and Fight Club as Retellings of Pink Floyd’s The Wall

A Sneak Preview from You Do Not Talk About Fight Club: I Am Jack’s Completely Unauthorized Essay Collection

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Saturday, August 21, 2010

Inception interpretations

There are lots of Inception interpretations out there.  This one is our favorite so far, but we’re waiting on two more.  Stay tuned.

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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

The Bastard Wachowski Brother

In Armond White’s strong-willed opinion of Inception, the film should have been called Self Deception:  ‘If anything, the time and consciousness tricks stolen from The Matrix make Nolan a bastard Wachowski brother, not a son of Kubrick.”

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Lindy West Owns The Sex and The City Review Category

If you haven’t heard of Lindy West before, be warned:  dangerous, profound, addictive.  Sex and the City 2 is “essentially a home video of gay men playing with giant Barbie dolls.” Discuss.

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Friday, July 23, 2010

Ruling the Galaxy Through the Power of the Dark Side Not As Easy As It Once Was

Even Darth Vader gets the economic blues.

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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

5 Interpretations About 1 Film

Five ways of looking at Inception.

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Thursday, March 25, 2010

The Book of Denzel

Terry Mattingly, of Get Religion, gives an interesting interview and story with Denzel Washington about The Book of Eli and Training Day, among others.

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Friday, February 19, 2010

Afterwards, We All Felt Saved

The spirit of Fight Club moves into the ministry

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Friday, February 12, 2010

Logorama

The Logorama, in whom we live and breathe and have our being.  Watch it before the lawyers start suing.

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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Todd Alcott Analyses Inglourious Basterds

But is it art?  All your questions answered here.

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Monday, December 21, 2009

The Gospel According to James (Cameron)

Ross Douthat nails it on the head this crassmas season:  “Avatar” is Cameron’s long apologia for pantheism — a faith that equates God with Nature, and calls humanity into religious communion with the natural world.

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