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The Auteur Theory, part two: The ribbon of dreams.
“A film is a ribbon of dreams. The camera is much more than a recording apparatus; it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world that is not ours and that brings us to the heart of a...
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The kind of trash that glows in the dark.
Red hot confession time: I, like a few of my fellow perverts here at the merry ol’ Counterforce, love trash. Not so much the people (dirtbags and trashy people aren’t always one and the same, though...
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Your movie sucks.
Roger Ebert! “I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic–the year that Bonnie And Clyde didn’t win.” -Roger Ebert, 20 questions with Playboy. He’s not Pauline Kael, but you know...
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In love with the past, present, and future.
Saw The Time Traveler’s Wife today. It’s… not a great movie. If you never read the truly fantastic book by Audrey Niffenegger, you’re not going to know what the fuck is going on there. Nor will you...
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The end of time, part one.
Warning: MASSIVE NERDERY ABIDES. This is a Doctor Who post. Sort of. I should talk about the part one finale of the Tenth Doctor era, “The End Of Time, Part One,” but instead, especially in the spirit...
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The decade gone past (through the eye of the film projector).
from here. Tomorrow we’ll be presenting our best films of the decade list, and yeah, we’re a few weeks late, but you know what? Fuck off. That’s what. Now, normally, I don’t like to talk needless shit,...
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Adults are just obsolete children.
“Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it develops a sense of humor, which si awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It’s more than just a matter of...
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The girl with 7 evil exes.
The trailer for the long awaited Scott Pilgrim movie came out yesterday. It’s based on the much loved six part graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O’Malley and stars Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth...
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Go write your novel.
It’s NaNoWriMo, so go write your novel. Though you probably shouldn’t wait just until it’s NaNoWriMo to be doing that, but whatever. And while you’re at it, go vote. Meanwhile on the internet… How to...
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Past Prologue: October, 2010.
The end looms large, but it still a ways away and down the road a bit. But I kind of wanted to look back a little, month by month, at this blog. Maybe not every single month, but most, if I can. I...
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