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Watchmen Received One Great Season — Maybe That’s Enough
It seems highly unlikely that HBO’s Watchmen will produce a second season. To be fair, showrunner Damon Lindelof always made it clear that ...
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Parasite Is an Infectious Class Act
Parasite is a superbly produced and blackly comic social commentary thriller. It is best to see Parasite blind. Not necessarily because the film ...
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Trevorrow’s Duel of the Fates Has a Big Advantage Over Rise of Skywalker: It Will Never Exist
First it was #ReleaseTheJJCut. Now it’s a glimpse at the Colin Trevorrow “Star Wars: Duel of the Fates” script breakdown. It seems safe ...
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Joker’s Oscar Success Is Anything but a Wildcard
Going into any Academy Awards, the film with the most nominations becomes a stalking horse, a target for various think pieces and arguments ...
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Avatar’s Lack of a Cultural Footprint Might Be Its Best Feature
When concept art from the first two Avatar sequels was unveiled last week, the standard response was, “Who cares?” Much has been made ...
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Golden Globes Winner 1917 Is a Triumph of the Cinematic Experience
1917 is a propulsive and pounding cinematic experience — an immersive gaze into the abyss. 1917 picked up both Best Director and Best ...
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Chris Chibnall’s Doctor Who Looks Modern, but Its Storytelling Harks Back to 1963
The most striking thing about Chris Chibnall’s Doctor Who is how old-fashioned it feels, as if trying to recreate the show’s earliest seasons ...
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The Star Wars Saga Needs to ‘Grow Beyond’ the Skywalkers
It appears that The Rise of Skywalker will not be the end of the “Skywalker Saga” for Star Wars. Despite the heavy emphasis ...
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Netflix’s Dracula Is a Bloody Good Time
There are very few texts as ubiquitous as Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Stoker didn’t exactly invent vampires, drawing from a rich tradition of European ...
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The Witcher Exists in the Uncanny Valley Between Prestige & Episodic Television
The Witcher resides in the uncanny valley, although not the one that audiences might expect. The Witcher is an impressive accomplishment in purely ...
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Blockbuster Cinema Found and Lost Its Ambition in the 2010s Decade
There’s an old curse, “May you live in interesting times.” This applies to blockbuster cinema in the 2010s decade. It’s difficult to extrapolate ...
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The Witcher Asks: What Is the Measure of a Monster?
This article contains spoilers for The Witcher season 1 on Netflix — and its monsters. What is the measure of a monster? Monster ...
