Author: Scott Beggs
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R.I.P. Hulu Plus
As of last month, Hulu had 9m paid subscribers to their Hulu Plus program. As of last week, Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins announced that they’d…
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Kung Fury is the Most Awesome ’80s Action Movie of 2015
https://medium.com/media/a0aa573783a67f6614d693c34730fb19/href “In the 1940s, Adolf Hitler was a kung fu master…” Part Naked Gun, part Miami Connection, part Too Many Cooks, this short film from writer/director…
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The Dexter-like Potential of a Talented Mr. Ripley TV Show
Television 360 and Endemol Shine (a 1930s shoe polish?) want to bring Tom Ripley back to life for the small screen. It’s the kind of…
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A Sample of the Knowledge Dropped When 43 Filmmakers Took Over Twitter
If you’re a filmmaker of any stripe (amateur, hobbyist, aspiring, professional, Spielberg), you may want to bookmark this as a resource to return to. Yesterday, Ava…
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No One Is To Blame For Pop Culture
There’s no way to write this article without sounding like a stuffy antique who delights in polishing his monocle while listening to obscure, 15th century…
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Video Proof That POV Shots Made Mad Max Intense
https://medium.com/media/17cc7d3cb07f174eadf40132760be3c2/href If you want to start your day with a shot of adrenaline, you could do worse than to stare directly into this mash-up of…
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Well Now We Want Rick Baker to Design The Joker
To be clear, I don’t have a problem with the design for the Jared Leto incarnation of The Joker for Suicide Squad. He looks a…
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A Man Finds a Pyramid in His Crappy Apartment in This Short Film
https://medium.com/media/0abed31b708afcccea616e58e6e94aa1/href Starring Shane Carruth, this short film makes a worth companion to Primer with its enigmatic delivery and the simplicity of its sci-fi premise. Everything…
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Damon Lindelof’s Tomorrowland Post-Credits Scene Was Amazing
During an interview with IGN, Tomorrowland writer Damon Lindelof described his (serious? silly?) pitch for a post-credits sequence that unsurprisingly didn’t happen: At the very end…