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Fellow TwitchFilm writer Kurt Halfyard knows of my overwhelming fondness for cinematic experiences of unusual length. He and I will often seek out the one ticket in the Toronto International Film Festival’s annual program that will see us sitting in…
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My So-Cast Life – Guns and Gossip
My So-Cast Life is back and it’s better than ever! Meh, actually, I don’t know if that’s true because I basically think every single episode is excellent. This week it’s “Guns and Gossip,” the episode where Rickie really comes into his…
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Destroy All Monsters: HOUSE OF CARDS In American Upside-Down Land
Like many of you, I spent the weekend turning down the volume on the real-life political soap opera that has overtaken the United States and watched Netflix’s House of Cards instead. You have to feel sorry for House of Cards…
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My So-Cast Life – Dancing in the Dark
I jump from Sandy to Nicki in this week’s horribly embarrassing journal entry and am called upon once again to reflect that maybe I should have vetted these diaries before pushing ahead with this podcast. Well, whatever. Plus: Kat continues…
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My So-Cast Life – Pilot
We are once again in the iTunes store! And here’s an updated RSS feed for all you freestylers: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MySo-castLifeTederickcom/MattBrown Though it pains me to have a picture of fuckin’ Jordan on my blog, I am happy to announce the arrival…
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Destroy All Monsters: “Our Lot In Life” – Droid Personhood In STAR WARS
The question of gender as it relates to droids is interesting, if only in how it connects to the other, less-discussed aspect of these characters from the Star Wars saga: the status of their personhood. Gender is one of the…
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Blu-ray Review: DOWNHILL RACER Snaps Into Sharp Focus On Criterion
Here’s what the Criterion Collection is good for: equal parts enshrining of significant milestones in the art of film (see last week’s review of Ikiru), and the championing of striking works of filmcraft that have somehow slipped from the narrative…
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Review: SPECTRE
From A to Bond was a countdown rewatch, in alphabetical order, of the James Bond movies, which I wrote for The Substream leading up to the release of SKYFALL in 2012. I’ve continued the format for the SPECTRE review, and…
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Tatttooo: if she be worthy
I waited thirty years to get my first tattoo and seven more to get my second; tattoo #3 follows #2 at a hair-raising 15 months, and was also the shortest inception-to-ink turnaround in my life. If Tumblr is to be…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “All Good Things…”
“And the sky’s the limit.” There’s that shot at the end of “All Good Things…,” the last episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, where Captain Picard starts dealing a poker hand to his crew – he’s never, in seven…
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