Underrated Gems, or: How I Stopped Worrying and Used the Word “Gems” When I Swore I Wouldn’t by Stephen Simons After writing several TV Worth Watching columns I have developed an appreciation for just how subjective the viewing experience can be. After watching Star Trek: Deep Space Nine because no less than five friends promised me it was, […]
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Hope Runs Mad by Andrew Collins Mad Max: Fury Road is this year’s Edge of Tomorrow – the truly unique action film that dared to break the cycle of superhero and shoot-em-up flicks – except that it’s actually a really good movie. In both aesthetic and action it hits that wicked-sick, over-the-top sweet spot, taking us […]
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Of Heroes and Talking Trees by Andrew Collins Edge of Tomorrow Edge of Tomorrow — the latest Tom Cruise-as-demigod vehicle — is one of those films that does not have a single original element but manages to combine familiar tropes in entertaining fashion. The pieces are Groundhog Day (repeating day), Ender’s Game (humans vs. hive-mind aliens), […]
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Captain America: 21st Century Edition by Andrew Collins For a film with hardly a single original moment, Captain America: The Winter Soldier performs surprisingly well. Wrap Bourne, Minority Report, and Olympus Has Fallen into the Marvel universe and you might get something like this film. Chris Evans and the S.H.I.E.L.D. gang (Samuel Jackson’s Nick Fury and […]
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My Unexpected Journey by Abigail Beck “He is late, is all,” said Dwalin the dwarf of his tardy leader, Thorin Oakenshield. That line – from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – flitted through my mind as I peered down the long carpet, hoping to glimpse a familiar face. My sister and I stood in the […]
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The Science of Story by James Roland I had the opportunity to watch Gravity this weekend with Robby Stephenson, Senior Engineer in the Mechanical Engineering Division at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Afterward, we talked about the science on display in the film, what they got right and what seemed off. More importantly, we talked about how […]
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It’s an Animal Thing: Why Riddick is a Franchise With Teeth by James Roland Less than a year after The Matrix caused a sci-fi frenzy, Universal dumped its low-budget space flick Pitch Black into the desert of February film releases and left it to die. But like its feral anti-hero, the film survived, earning more […]
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Two Wrights Make a Wrong by James Roland The windows look like frames on a filmstrip as faces whiz left to right in a blur, folks staring out the train windows as it pulls into the station. It slows down enough to distinguish individual people, revealing a man with sunken cheeks, a ghastly scowl, and […]
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Astounding and Confounding by Andrew Collins For the first time ever, the 2013 Sundance Film Festival has chosen a dozen of the top short film submissions and presented them to the wider world via YouTube. Aside from length, short films have far fewer limitations than feature-length films, for it is nearly impossible to subject them […]
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After the Show by J. Hamilton I watched To Kill a Mockingbird three times last week — once at a theater. There can be no comparison. My wife had never seen the movie in a theater before. She was amazed. “So many things came clear for the first time,” she said. Thanks to Fathom Events […]
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