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After Standoff and Guy in the Sky, I always felt like there was one more Daniel vs. Demetre movie in us somewhere – in the basement, as it were. Well, basement time is officially here.
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Destroy All Monsters: Nostalgia, Loss, And Purple Rain
Turns out I had a few things to say about losing Prince. And, as usual, writing this made me feel better. Crank “Purple Rain” while you read this and try to get to the bottom in time for the “wooo-hooo-hooo-oooo.”…
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Destroy All Monsters: Scarlett Johansson And Our New, Digital Plasticity
Beyond merely her voice, Johansson was pretty much made for [The Jungle Book], and its seamless blending of performers with digital avatars. She is quickly becoming a one-woman cottage industry in exploring our relationship between our physical and virtual selves.
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Blu-ray Review: David Lean’s BRIEF ENCOUNTER Is A Sparkling Affair
This hit me surprisingly square.
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My So-Cast Life – Strangers In The House
The grim spectre of death ties everything together for our heroes as Sharon’s dad goes to the hospital, forcing Angela and Sharon to confront their “thing,” and Patty and Graham to confront their “thing.” Plus: who’s using Brian Krakow this…
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Destroy All Monsters: DEEP SPACE NINE And The Challenge Of Community
You owe Star Trek: Deep Space Nine a second look. It might be a good way to drain the time between now and Bryan Fuller’s Star Trek reboot next year. The best aspects of Deep Space Nine set a benchmark…
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My So-Cast Life – Why Jordan Can’t Read
He calls her Red… but who the hell is “her?” It’s a nosedive straight back into My So-Called Life‘s favourite topic – Angela’s pathological fixation with Jordan Catalano – in the one where notes are passed, songs are sung, and…
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Destroy All Monsters: Mindfulness In STAR WARS
This one, obviously, means a lot to me! I’ve been on the mindfulness/meditation journey for a couple of years now, ever since I decided to start taking the fight back to my own anxiety disorder (which isn’t a very mindful…
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My So-Cast Life – The Substitute
A real deep-dive this week, as we tackle my favourite episode of My So-Called Life, “The Substitute” – including a very special not-quite-a-diary entry, and many rhapsodic talkings with respect to my high school English teacher, who definitely would not…
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Destroy All Monsters: My Team’s Better Than Your Team, So There
Kind of proud of this one, mostly because it started as an all-out rant about internet argument culture and somehow metastasized into an appreciation of how the DC Expanded Universe, through its Infinite Earths model, might actually be a better…
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