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The cadre of solipsistic, misogynist Ghostbusters fanboys executed what one hopes would be their final coup de grace against Paul Feig’s imminent Ghostbusters reboot this week, by spamming the IMDB (and Letterboxd) with disastrously low user ratings for a movie…
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Destroy All Monsters: Gazing At THE NEON DEMON
Looking is everything in Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon. Besides being the kind of cinematic scopophilia masterpiece that we only seem to get every couple of decades (Blow Up; Peeping Tom), its narrative turns on two different definitions of…
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My So-Cast Life: Episode 12 – Self-Esteem
In today’s gobsmacking episode, NOT ONLY do we talk about that episode where Angela and Jordan were making out in the boiler room, I also read my diary entry from the day I saw STAR TREK: GENERATIONS. Hilar.
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Destroy All Monsters: Movie Brands Are Ads, Not Outcomes
Independence Day Resurgence had all the makings of a mega-hit (in North America, at least): apocalyptic action, big(ish) returning stars, and most importantly in terms of what properties have netted huge returns in this decade, a nostalgia-friendly recognizable brand. So…
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Blu-ray Review: CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA is a Misty New Classic
The disc boasts cover art that makes the film look like either a mountaineering murder mystery or an Adrian Lyne sex thriller. It’s neither, though I’d certainly pay to see the B-side of this movie, same team and cast, which…
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Destroy All Monsters: WARCRAFT Sucks, But Fantasy Doesn’t
New site! TwitchFilm has become ScreenAnarchy, and Destroy All Monsters continues. This week I come not to bury fantasy, but to praise it (but bury WARCRAFT tho).
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My So-Cast Life: Episode 11 – Life of Brian
We’re back! After a somewhat-longer-than-expected hiatus, we toss out a somewhat-longer-than-expected episode, because “Life of Brian” is just that interesting. It’s the first MSCL to give the v/o to someone other than Angela, and it turns out the things going…
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Destroy All Monsters: THE PHANTOM MENACE Started The Conversation On Fan Entitlement
We are in the midst of a renewed conversation about fandom’s relationship with the properties they cherish. This is thanks in no small part to (of all things!) a white male internet dweeb proclaiming to all who would listen that…
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Blu-ray Review: I Can Think Of At Least One Thing Wrong With The Title Of Shindo Kaneto’s THE NAKED ISLAND
Simpsons jokes and expectations of foreign film exoticism notwithstanding, Shindo Kaneto’s 1960 film The Naked Island has arrived on Blu-ray by way of the Criterion Collection (spine #811). Shindo’s follow-up to that film, Onibaba, remains one of my favourite movies…
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Destroy All Monsters: Mad As A Hatter And Half As Fun
As of today, we cleanly divide Depp’s career into two parts: before Jack Sparrow, and after. Certainly, for my generation and and a lot of other people, Johnny Depp before Jack Sparrow (and, arguably, including at least the first instance…
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