Bob Chipman, Author at The Escapist

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Things to Come

2010 has come to a close, and 2011 is now upon us. For me, it’s a time to look ahead at all the ...

By Bob ChipmanDecember 31, 2010

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3 Movies That Changed Christmas

If you ever need an example of the power of a work of fiction to transform a culture, you need look no further ...

By Bob ChipmanDecember 24, 2010

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Stop. Hammer Time!

To the degree that there’s anything truly risky about the making of a movie in the most currently-popular genre in the world, by ...

By Bob ChipmanDecember 17, 2010

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You Don’t Know Jack

Many sorts of people are called “walking contradictions,” almost none of them deservedly. Most of the time it’s a phrase used to deride ...

By Bob ChipmanDecember 10, 2010

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That One Part Was Awesome

I’m expecting to catch a bit of backlash over this week’s review of Black Swan specifically for my attempted skewering of the idea ...

By Bob ChipmanDecember 3, 2010

Editorials

In Brightest Day

The trailer for The Green Lantern – the opening salvo of a renewed effort (read: “Crap! Harry Potter is over! We need a ...

By Bob ChipmanNovember 26, 2010

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Film This Chick Stuff! Part Two: Film It!

This has been genuinely enlightening. Last week, I asked fans for their thoughts on what fondly-remembered media properties ought to be the X-chromosome’s ...

By Bob ChipmanNovember 19, 2010

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Film This Chick Stuff! Part One: A Call for Aid

I don’t do a lot of research for these columns (or shows, for that matter.) I don’t intend that to sound like showing ...

By Bob ChipmanNovember 12, 2010

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Laughing at Terrorists

“I guess when everybody shut up, like, ‘he’s never going to make a film’ – then I’ll make a film and, ‘oh! It’s ...

By Bob ChipmanNovember 5, 2010

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Special School: Halloween

One of the most conspicuous casualties of television programming in the age of 24-hour cable and internet broadcasts (in the United States, anyway, ...

By Bob ChipmanOctober 29, 2010

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That Almost Happened!

[puzzle=1]The movies have given us a lot of “WTF?” moments over the years, but most of the time we never find out just ...

By Bob ChipmanOctober 22, 2010

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My Little Phony

Followers of this column and/or its sister series will recall that I’m fond of the maxim “You Can Make a Good Movie Out ...

By Bob ChipmanOctober 15, 2010

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