Category: film
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8-Bit Generation
There are not many people I trust to make recommendations about funding another crowdfunding campaign from people who have already failed to ship a documentary once, but you should read the full argument from Jason Scott. Here’s just a part: Way back in 2012, I posted something, talking about how worried I was that a…
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Terminator Genisys: A Fart in a Wind Tunnel
Devin Faraci: The script is the biggest problem with Terminator Genisys – it is stupid and it is riddled with cheap, lazy callbacks to movies that have technically never happened after this reboot – but the casting gives that shit script a run for its money as The Biggest Problem. Jai Courtney is a disaster…
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The Little Lebowski Urban Achievers
Dan Benjamin (of many fine podcasts at 5by5) and Merlin Mann (of Back to Work and Roderick on the Line) recently recorded a podcast about the Coen brothers’ The Big Lebowski. The Big Lebowski is such a great movie in all of its nonsense, and as Dan and Merlin point out we all know a Dude but…
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Let’s go out to the movie awards with Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman isn’t a nobody, except when he is at the Oscars: I had written a book called Coraline, which the director Henry Selick had transformed into a stop-motion wonderland. I’d helped Henry as much as I could through the process of turning something from a book into a film. I had endorsed the film,…