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“The Bat, The Cat, The Penguin,” the movie posters snarled in the summer of 1992, and Batman Returns did not disappoint; here was a Gotham bestiary par excellence. If the task of sequelizing Batman was an inherently thankless one –…
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Tim Burton’s BATMAN: A Look Back
Batman arrived at the exact right moment in my young life to become the Thing With Which I Was The Most Obsessed for the entirety of the subsequent six or seven years. It eventually took, I think, about a year…
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Blogging The Next Generation: “Encounter at Farpoint”
“Well, this is a new ship, but she’s got the right name.” The entire gulf between the male and female of our species might be mapped in the lack of understanding in my girlfriend’s eyes, as I attempted to explain…
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My Week With Alien, Part 5: PROMETHEUS
Originally published at The Substream. Spoilers. Thrilling and dangerous, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus is the vigorous work of a mature director, returning with terrifying intelligence to the rigours and riddles of long-ago dreams. The film does as advertised. It is hard…
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My Week With Alien, Part 4: ALIEN RESURRECTION
Originally published at The Substream. The dirty little secret at the heart of dirty little Alien Resurrection is that for all its marketing claims to the contrary, and for all of Joss Whedon’s “there’s dead and then there’s dead” reverse-engineering,…
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My Week With Alien, Part 3: ALIEN3
Originally published at The Substream. What then, Alien3? It is both the best and the worst of the saga, all rolled into one profoundly uncomfortable ball; it is the signature emergence of one of the most talented directors working in…
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My Week With Alien, Part 2: ALIENS
Originally published at The Substream. With the first film, Alien became a classic; with the second, for good or ill, Alien becomes a franchise. This is beside the point for me: what I find most rewarding about all four Alien films…
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My Week With Alien, Part 1: ALIEN
Originally published at The Substream. I stand by the Alien films. Yes, even that one. Yes: that one too. What eventually becomes clear in looking at Alien, Aliens, Alien3 and Alien Resurrection is that each one is something unique and…
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Watch This Instead: The Phantom Menace
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Review: WAR HORSE
I’ve been trying something new with my moviegoing, based off a recent David Bordwell blog post in which he affirms that the front row is the best place from which to watch a movie. I can’t quite get all the way in…
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