politics
The other day I watched a double feature of Jay Roach's Bombshell, followed by his earlier film Game Change. In contrast to my recent article on political fiction, I'm more interested here in the role that real-life political figures play in these fictionalized dramas. What
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In the game & comic shop I spend time in, they’ve been discussing a certain new movie trailer at great length. Yet for someone who loiters about in a comic shop all day like a Kevin Smith extra, I’m little interested in the realm of geekdom. I haven’
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Few images stand out in Stanley Kubrick’s oeuvre more than the unblinking eye of the HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey, a film that would be practically unthinkable today (except in watered-down forms like Arrival or Blade Runner 2049): certainly Kubrick’s opus would be virtually
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The best and worst thing I can think to say about Tenet, a film based upon a book that hasn't been written yet, is that it is very, very Christopher Nolan. It's arguably peak Nolan at a time when that seems least needed. "Big movies
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More misadventures in bad cinema with two films in the God's Not Dead series.
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As gifted as Mel Brooks is at satirizing and parodying genre and trope, where his films perform most acutely is in the deconstruction of filmmaking itself. For Brooks, the screen is an easily permeable membrane, and characters and filmmakers pass through it regularly. Whether it's Hedy Lamarr (ahem,
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A few days ago, Netflix released a new film called Girl. I have my misgivings about the streaming video service, including the fact that Netflix deadnames me all the time, but that's not what this is about. This is about Girl. Belgium's submission to the Oscars
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Derek Jarman ought to be around to film the end of the world. In Edward II, in War Requiem, in Caravaggio, Jarman filmed very queer apocalypses, sensual destructions that rent the world as we understand it asunder. For Jarman, everything was a process of constant transformation and rebirth. Edward II
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Thoughts on criticism and the 'Megalopolis' trailer.
queer
Denver's preeminent queer film festival has come and gone.
politics
More adventures in conservative Christian cinema.