Author: Scott Beggs
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How Looney Tunes Animator Chuck Jones Became a Master of Visual Comedy
https://medium.com/media/9ed35ead3836ae82b7aff64087c9f5bb/href In 2006, Roger Ebert wrote this about Chuck Jones’ cartoons in his “Great Movie” column: These cartoons, and all the cartoons from the same tradition,…
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Half Man, Half Ant: The Body Horror of Superhero Movies
In order to become something more than human, you have to change. This is the core element that connects superhero movies to films we more regularly…
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Joe Dirt 2 and the Very Meaning of Art Itself
Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser is one of the most fascinating cultural artifacts of the year. No one should ever watch it, but it still…
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The Lazy Backlash Against CGI Needs to End
Almost immediately after it played at Comic-Con, a teaser scene from Duncan Jones’ Warcraft leaked online. Just like every other trailer shown at Comic-Con. After…
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The Struggle of Forgiveness and Silence in the Face of Evil
The most radical thing about The Look of Silence isn’t that a man sits knee-to-knee while interviewing the men who brutally murdered his brother, but…
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The Paradox of Blockbuster Event Movies
Disney/Marvel When Screencrush’s Matt Singer went to Comic-Con this year, he experienced the best that a mile-long fandom line has to offer as well as…
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Wreck-It Ralph 2: The Best Sequel News on a Bittersweet Day
Nintendo President and CEO Satoru Iwata died on Saturday after battling cancer for more than a year, and after a near-two-decade run of leading the…
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Guidelines for Talking During a Horror Movie: Don’t
Rich Juzwiak at Gawker just penned an article saying that, if you want to talk during movies, it’s totally cool. Maybe don’t do it at…
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What if the New Star Wars Movie Sucks?
Linus, Hutch, Zoe, Bottler and Windows spend the entirety of Fanboys crossing the country on a quest to break into Skywalker Ranch to see Star…