Month: March 2009
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The Peacekeeper: 90’s Inaction
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Read more: The Peacekeeper: 90’s InactionThe 3rd best Dolph film EVER!
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Vagabond (1985)
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Read more: Vagabond (1985)How does one conduct a character study of a complete void? The human soul is elusive enough when it has emotion, connection, and interacts with those who share its space. When that soul retreats deeply and sheds aspiration, joy, and intellectual craving, then a standard investigation into that marrow would be halting, and make for…
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The Exterminating Angel (1962)
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Read more: The Exterminating Angel (1962)Luis Bunuel was obsessed with ritual and fetish, but he managed to harness them for his art; perhaps selecting embrace rather than denial is what saved him from self-destruction. Social conventions are part of the learned behaviors that members of a society use to relate to one another, but they can also become a languid…
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Watchmen (2009)
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Read more: Watchmen (2009)Given the troubled production history and the reputation of Watchmen as unfilmable, it is remarkable that this ever came to the screen, and was able to reduce the expansive narrative into a digestible chunk. Though the comic book (‘Graphic novel’ is a stupid term – if there is nothing wrong with ‘comic book’ then there…