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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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On the December Radar…
Coming off of what was probably the single most awkward and regrettable Thanksgiving dinner of our lives, as well as a failed attempt to replicate a lightning-in-a-bottle cultural phenomenon, we have one more month of 2024 theatrical releases to go. These are coming out as the next awards campaign season heats up, but pretty much […] More
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Ranking the Top Ten Best Episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000
It really cannot be stressed enough how influential Mystery Science Theater 3000 was, and how it presaged so much of modern popular entertainment that still persists to this day. Despite all the ways in which distribution models, technology, and generational sensibilities have changed over the last thirty-five years, the notion of just parasocially “hanging out” […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Reflecting On The ‘Cloverfield’ Hype Fifteen Years Later
If you are of a certain age, you definitely remember seeing this for the first time: Even if you remember literally nothing else about the movie Cloverfield itself, released around this time fifteen years ago, you still remember the firestorm of speculation that followed this teaser trailer for what looked like a found footage disaster […] More
