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The Call of the Wild movie review: a very good boi (mostly)

Wed, Feb 19, 2020
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An old-fashioned kiddie adventure, sweetly earnest, equal parts scary, funny, exciting, sad, and happy, with only a bit of uncanny valley in its CGI doggo star. Definitely had something in my eye.

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Fox’s ‘Exorcist’ series is deeply creepy (Season 1 open thread)

Tue, Jan 10, 2017
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It’s incredibly unnerving in ways that filmed horror often fails to achieve… [This post is not behind the paywall.]

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Best of Enemies documentary review: “the practice of malice”

Fri, Jul 24, 2015
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A brilliant, hilarious, exhilarating look at the Gore Vidal v. William F. Buckley paradigm-busting 1968 debates that changed TV journalism for the worse.

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Exodus: Gods and Kings movie review: whites only

Wed, Jan 21, 2015
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Simultaneously the dullest and the most insulting version of itself it could possibly be. If only it had managed to be campy, that’d be something…

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your awards-season cheat sheet… or how to sound like an insider (even if you’re not)

Tue, Nov 19, 2013
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Shhh! don’t tell anywhere where you heard all this…

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Doctor Who thing: you won’t believe how much worse the US TV movie could have been

Wed, May 01, 2013
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See Paul McGann’s audition video, which uses an agonizingly awful earlier version of the script…

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attn geeks: your “Jayne hat” is now a “cunning handmade hat from the future”

Thu, Apr 11, 2013
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Fox finds a new way to piss off Firefly fans…

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question of the day: Is it a good idea for Netflix and other digital providers to revive cancelled TV shows?

Fri, Sep 07, 2012
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Does it really make any difference how a show gets before viewers, as long as the viewers are there to support it?

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a lost Jurassic Park 4 would have had dinosaurs with guns (and other adventures in social networking)

Fri, Aug 17, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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Ridley Scott and Michael Fassbender talk Prometheus

Sun, May 20, 2012
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I promised to share a few of the juiciest tidbits from the Prometheus talent Q&A I attended last month. And here they are.

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