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Oblivion

The Titan movie review: bad science, worse science fiction

Wed, Apr 18, 2018
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The science is ludicrous, the story is almost entirely free of drama, and the finale descends into the hoariest, most ridiculous clichés of the genre. But the future smart-house porn is lovely.

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things wot we learned from the 2013 summer movies

Fri, Aug 30, 2013
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Have you been paying attention to what the movies have been saying — what the movies have really been saying — all summer? Here’s a refresher.

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the screenwriting bible that is to blame for the tedious blandness of blockbusters

Sat, Jul 20, 2013
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When I look at my watch during a movie, it’s because I’m checking to see if my guess about where in the runtime we are coincides with what just happened onscreen. This book is what makes that possible.

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most popular posts on FlickFilosopher week of Apr 20-26 2013

Sun, Apr 28, 2013
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film critics! damned if we do, and damned if we don’t

Mon, Apr 22, 2013
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Great. Now we critics are being chastised for not spoiling movies…

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most popular posts on FlickFilosopher week of Apr 13-19 2013

Sat, Apr 20, 2013
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spoiling movies in a responsible way will be a new thing here…

Sat, Apr 20, 2013
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…when I get up and running on WordPress (which will be very soon), when I can protect such posts from accidental viewing. In the meantime, please enjoy this post from Film School Rejects about Oblivion…

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Cinema du Sanity: pop culture for reasonable people

Tue, Apr 16, 2013
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Let me know what you think. If enough people like it, maybe I’ll do this as a weekly thing…

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I podcast again

Sun, Apr 14, 2013
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I’ve done another podcast with The Picture Show, a project of Sam Inglis’s 24 Frames Per Second…

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Oblivion movie review: Jetsons parody or Ikea commercial?

Fri, Apr 12, 2013
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Postcard-pretty, unusual for a science fiction flick, but shockingly derivative.

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