Tag: movies
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Video Stores: Shared Spaces (retrospective)
Let’s hop into our nostalgia-fueled mental time machine and travel back before the internet became so omniscient nobody ever had to leave the house or directly interact with another human being again. Unless I have a readership comprised of kids on other kid’s shoulders wearing a trenchcoat and sunglasses going by the name Mann Adultguy,…
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10 Black and White Movies That Still Look Modern Today
Black and white films hold an important place in film history: before three-strip Technicolor was introduced in 1932, all films were shot in black-and-white. Even after the advent of color film, many filmmakers chose to shoot in monochrome as both an aesthetic choice and because the film stock was cheaper, which afforded filmmakers to experiment…
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Horror Movie Recaps
Wherein an over-educated pop culture nerd deals with a crumbling relationship by watching horror movies and recapping them live, with some entertaining results.
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Perfect Directors: Lindsay Anderson
Some directors don’t need a long filmography to secure their status as a perfect director. In fact, as it’s been demonstrated from the filmographies of Jacques Tati and Terrence Malick, respectively, sometimes the fewer films a director makes the better their overall reputation survives. After all, Terrence Malick made 5 perfect films in a row…
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Twelve 90’s Cartoons Adapted From Movies
The 1990’s were an absolute juggernaut when it came to kid’s cartoons: while cartoons in the 80’s were either on Saturday morning or in syndication at random time slots throughout the day across different markets, the 90’s harnessed the power of children’s programming and created weekday afternoon blocks of cartoons, most notably the Disney Afternoon…
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Radical 90’s: Introduction
As America pivoted from the 1980’s to the 1990’s, the culture as a whole seemed to undergo a seismic shift: from the staunch conservatism that dominated the previous decade, by 1991 the entirety of the country seemed to shrug off the social and economic mores that centered the country after the chaotic 1960’s and hippie…
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