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in Op-edOn the Spring Radar…
Congratulations to Sean Baker on his big night at the Oscars! I have to admit, as much as I mostly like him as a filmmaker, it feels a little weird seeing someone win four Academy Awards for a single movie. I just don’t think that many trophies should be showered on just one person for […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Exorcising Paul Schrader’s Demons
So imagine it is the year 1997 and you’re James G. Robinson, co-founder of Morgan Creek Entertainment. You just saw Wes Craven revive the slasher genre the year prior, shocking an industry that had assumed since the end of the Cold War that those were permanently extinct. Suddenly, you see movement on reviving seemingly dead-and-buried […] More
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Is Hollywood About to Pull the Death (XIII) Card? Should They?
The 13th of the Major Arcana cards, Death, is easily the single most misunderstood card in all of tarot. There have been so many B-movies that have used it as a shorthand for oh no this character is going to die!!! and tarot card readers usually have to quickly reassure their clients that that is […] More
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On the Radar… (Spring Edition)
Remember when a movie that won the Academy Award for Best Picture included a scene from one of its Oscar-nominated actresses where she bludgeons a man to death with two comically oversized dildos? And then later featured a scene where two henchmen shove phallic-shaped trophies up their asses to obtain martial arts abilities against its […] More
