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A story of fire and ice; silver and gold
Depending on whom you talk to, anywhere between 75 and 90 percent of all silent film is lost forever. The vast majority of everything...
A wee whee, mon ami
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets has the exact problems you would anticipate an adaptation of a 50-year-old French sci-fi comic book...
Nostalgia for the frame
Elsa Dorfman isn’t interested in your soul; your surface is more than enough. And since the 1960s, Dorfman has photographed those surfaces with love...
The moment when everything changed
Scientific people know very well that time is only a kind of space. We can move forward and backward in time just as we...
All work and no play…
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. —Robert Frost
Buster (Rami...
Ladies might
Maybe it was the way Kate McKinnon’s hyperbolic Australian accent hilariously tortured the word “pizza” until it simultaneously had between one and seven syllables....
Art for art’s sake
manifesto, noun: a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer
What we need is works of art that are strong,...
‘It Comes at Night’ is awful good
Everything about It Comes at Night is frickin’ uncomfortable. From the unfathomable interpersonal horror at the film’s center to the way everyone is all...
‘Cars 3’ tackles the generational divide
Speed. I am speed. Faster than fast, quicker than quick. I am Lightning.
You are until you’re not.
When racecar Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen...
A match made in heaven
Though the name Emily Dickinson may be well known — most can identify her as one of the greatest American poets — not many...
D.R.E.A.M (dudes ruin everything about movies)
In the first hour of the first massively-budgeted movie centered on a female superhero, Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) brags about his dick as Wonder...
Whirl fools
Imagine watching Star Wars and deciding the franchise should forever forward follow C-3PO. And that C-3PO was played by a former hunk who now...
