Author: Scott Beggs
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Frames Inside Frames: A Mesmerizing Supercut of Passageways
https://medium.com/media/7ad296ee7c9c29018103200f86496a10/href Yasujiro Ozu’s filmography was a blindspot for me personally until Landon and I explored the Sight & Sound Top 50 together. Falling in love…
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Birth of a Nation Wasn’t the First Feature Film
David W. Griffith Corp. This is a public service announcement. Birth of a Nation wasn’t the first feature film ever made. It wasn’t even the first…
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Should You Support Jupiter Ascending Just Because It’s Original Sci-Fi?
Warner Bros. It’s possibly the end of original sci-fi filmmaking at Warner Bros. At least it’s easy to imagine it might be. With the lackluster…
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Bryan Singer’s X-Men Tease is the Perfect Symbol for Modern Franchise Filmmaking
Bryan Singer Yesterday, Bryan Singer shared a picture of a door with the world. It was later eclipsed by bigger, more substantial superhero news, but…
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The Buzzkill Element of the Sony/Marvel Spider-Man Deal Everyone is Ignoring
ABC If you casually combed through the internet drool today, you’d probably think that Sony sold Spider-Man back to Marvel to do with what they…
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Supercut: Nearly a Century of Robots in Movies
https://medium.com/media/e3ccc2014b91c9b3540ff25b88080b6d/href Robots! Those futuristic metallic beasts from the world of tomorrow are really, really old. Centuries, in fact, although our modern concept is creeping up…
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An Unclear Future For The Amazing Spider-Man
Sony Amy Pascal is out at Sony. That means the biggest (or at least one of the biggest) cheerleaders for pushing forward with a Spider-Man…
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Hollywood is Addicted to Franchises, And Everything’s Going to be Fine
Fox Searchlight Some of us have gotten hit so hard with franchise fatigue within the past few years that franchise fatigue fatigue is a legitimate…
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The Most Elite Award Isn’t the EGOT, It’s the ONK
NBC The EGOT is great. There’s no denying that. It’s the American entertainment grand slam, and the rarity with which it’s earned (12 people) only…