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What if Roald Dahl Remade Under Siege 2? A Review of Snowpiercer
I’m so glad Snowpiercer is about adults, even if it’s told with the visual vocabulary and demented sense of humor of Roald Dahl. More on that later. Listen, don’t get me wrong — I love young adult...
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Echoes and Layers: A Look Back at The Wire, Season 5 and Beyond
In the final segment of this three-part series, I try to diagnose season five's problems, all while suggesting some possible remedies and proposing ideas for future seasons. Last time I asked: Where...
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Bold And Crazy Predictions For The New Season Of Twin Peaks
Monday felt like Christmas morning. I’m not kidding. After David Lynch and Mark Frost pulled that “blue rose”-caliber stunt on Friday by posting simultaneous tweets promising that the “gum we like” was...
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Building The Diamond: A Gut Feeling About The New Season Of Twin Peaks
Let’s talk about ghosts. I love Fire Walk With Me. Among Twin Peaks fans, I feel like I’m not alone, though I know there’s a contingent of hardcore faithful who lament the movie’s grim tone, lack of...
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What a Guy Notices After Watching Back to the Future for the...
You can’t get anything by me, Back to the Future! Like most geeks of my generation, I’ve seen this classic time-travel movie countless times, and over the years, I’ve compiled a modest list of tiny...
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A Look Back at Casino Royale
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD! "Bond had always been a gambler." – from Casino Royale Casino Royale is hands-down the best James Bond movie, and Daniel Craig is the best James Bond. Yes, Connery is still in...
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Grappling With Gone Girl
SPOILERS AHEAD FOR THE MOVIE AND THE BOOK! Coming out of Gone Girl, I was of two minds — appalled pearl-clutcher and delighted crime-fiction geek. On reflection, I’m inclined to side with the...
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Review: Inherent Vice
Inherent Vice didn’t electrify me the way most of Paul Thomas Anderson’s other movies do, but I still dig it, because it’s a movie that’s meant to be dug. It’s a sidewinding, meandering goof of a noir;...
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Mad Men Recap: "Severance"
Sometimes our subconscious can scare the hell out of us, but not for the reasons we expect. Let me explain: Most of the time when our subconscious scares us, it’s by virtue of its invention. It brews a...
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April Fool’s Week 2015: Tony Lazlo Takes Down Two Versions of Romeo & Juliet...
To close out April Fool's Week 2015, CC2K's Tony Lazlo does some makeup homework, covering two versions of Romeo & Juliet, two versions of Henry V, all while finding time to revisit Kenneth...
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