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I can’t resist saying that I loved Ghostbusters ’16 – yeah, actually loved it, much more so than I expected to – and by sheer dint of my having said that, several users (the majority, I will hazard a guess,…
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Blu-ray Review: A TOUCH OF ZEN Comes to the Criterion Collection
Halfway through a year already crammed full of impressive releases (with no sign of slowing down… Dekalog for September!), The Criterion Collection has also taken advantage of the recent 4K remaster of King Hu’s seminal A Touch of Zen, adding…
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My So-Cast Life: Episode 13 – Pressure
It’s the one where Angela and Jordan are maybe gonna do it which leads to me and Kat talking about when we did it but not with each other don’t think like that but we definitely totally all the way did it with other…
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Destroy All Monsters: The Toxic Masculinity of Shaming the GHOSTBUSTERS Haters
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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