Movies
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31 Things We Learned from John McTiernan’s ‘Die Hard’ Commentary
‘Die Hard’ remains an all-time action classic. This commentary? Not so much.
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Blood, Sweat and Latex: The Journey of a Thousand Miles…
by Shannon Shea For those new to the column, I am revisiting important events in my life that have made me what I am today: A…
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The 36 Things We Learned from John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’ Commentary
Commentaries don’t get much better than this, folks.
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Disc Spotlight: Dario Argento’s Tenebrae
Another month, another Dario Argento Blu-ray release from Arrow Video in the UK. This time it’s a film considered by many to be among his…
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Blood, Sweat and Latex: Career Reset
by Shannon Shea For those of you new to the column, I’m recounting key experiences of my life that made me what I am today: A…
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Foreign Objects: Vampires (Belgium)
Remember the MPAA’s much ballyhooed new rating for adult themed/non-porn films back in 1990? NC-17 stood for ‘No children under 17" and was meant for…
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Culture Warrior: Forget the Box Office
I’ll be the first to admit that the title of this post is a tad hyperbolic. The box office should not necessarily be forgotten, and…
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Blood, Sweat and Latex: Does Wearing Witch Make-Up Constitute Cross-Dressing?
by Shannon Shea In 1983, the California Institute of the Arts, being a liberal arts college in, what was then, a remote part of the Santa…
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Review: ‘Make Believe’ Finds Magic In the Teenage Search For Identity And Flair
Magic is like the Schrödinger’s Cat of obscure passions. Or, to put it another way, magic is simultaneously very cool and not cool at all.…