Category: Destroy All Monsters
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Destroy All Monsters: NOCTURNAL ANIMALS Is Sadly On-Point For Women In Hollywood
…This places the film in an unofficial sub-genre: the “intentionally or not” films. I like these. (Die Hard 4 is, “unintentionally or not,” a hell of a movie about how emasculated America felt in the years following 9/11.) In the case of Nocturnal Animals, it’s “intentionally or not, this movie is a working model for…
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Destroy All Monsters: We’re Bad At Confronting News Like The Bertolucci News
On the weekend one of my listeners jumped on the comment thread for my latest podcast episode to voice his disgust at the news that Bernardo Bertolucci had conspired with Marlon Brando to rape Maria Schneider for a scene in Last Tango in Paris. He went on to say that at least Hollywood and the…
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Destroy All Monsters: Why The World (Of SUPERGIRL) Doesn’t Need Superman
Can’t resist any SUPERMAN RETURNS reference, can I
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Destroy All Monsters: Filmmakers Need To Get Over The Idea That We Want To Be “Immersed”
I’m as big a fan of high-frame-rate cinema as probably exists in the general audience (i.e. I’m not Doug Trumbull, but I’ve seen Ufotog). Hey, I liked Avatar a hell of a lot, too – 3-D included. Saw it six times in IMAX, for the explicit reason that it was such an inherently transportive big-screen…
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Destroy All Monsters: The Tyranny of Straight Lines in ARRIVAL
Here on Earth (both within the film, and out in the real world), time is always a story, and all stories are arranged around it. This happened, then this happened, then this happened. Our entire understanding of psychology is based in how events in the past must have manifested in our troubles of the present;…
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Destroy All Monsters: It’s Not About You, DOCTOR STRANGE
One of the running jokes in Doctor Strange has Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) constantly having to reassert his title to anyone and everyone, because after the accident that shatters his hands sends him scouring the world for a cure, no one will call him “Doctor.” This is a useful line of insight the character, and…
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Destroy All Monsters: I Know How Badly You Want To Screw Up WONDER WOMAN, Warner Brothers, But Please Don’t
The thing is, I suspect that what a filmmaker turns in to Warner Brothers and what we actually end up seeing on the screen are pretty far apart. If 2016’s DCEU offerings are anything to go by, the studio wouldn’t know a good movie if it showed up and kissed them – and they’d work…
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Destroy All Monsters: Don’t Ruin Christmas The Way You Killed Summer, Hollywood
I’m as against the early proliferation of holiday decorations as the next man, and when I saw the tinsel going up in my local drug store last week – on October 25, and hanging, grotesquely, above the jack-o’-lanterns – I grumbled Scroogily to myself. And then I read the (also bizarrely early) holiday special of…
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Destroy All Monsters: As THE WALKING DEAD Reminds Us, The Apocalypse Is Going To Be Disappointing Too
“The fantasy of the end of the world only succeeds as a fantasy (or even as a horror story, if that’s what The Walking Dead is) if it offers an outcome more elevated than the one we have right now. Right now, though, The Walking Dead might be set in the zombie apocalypse but it’s…
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Destroy All Monsters: LUKE CAGE, Democracy, and the Voices Outside the Majority
I’m not a political writer, though like many professionals and non-professionals on the pop culture beat this year, it’s been difficult to hold back some political views.