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The Short Film has been a launching pad of sorts for many filmmakers. Ridley Scott, Damien Chazelle, and Christopher Nolan all cut their teeth...
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The Short Film has been a launching pad of sorts for many filmmakers. Ridley Scott, Damien Chazelle, and Christopher Nolan all cut their teeth...
Kinds of Kindness is an anthology of moods. Director Yorgos Lanthimos calls it “an absurdist anthology” but this is as misleading as it...
Run Lola Run celebrates the 25th anniversary of its original release with a new 4k restoration. For me, it is the first time viewing...
“Whatever you think I am, that’s what I’m not…” – Grant Morrison Grant Morrison is considered a rock star of comics, leaving a trail...
John Ridley has a career that most writers rightfully envy. He’s a storyteller, and unlike many other writers, works regularly across various mediums. As...
Two of the comic book industry’s most celebrated veteran creators are joining forces to pass along their 90-plus combined years of knowledge to both...
A few weeks before the release of Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan told Variety that “some people leave the movie absolutely devastated.” My response at the...
… ESTIMATION OF THE AUDIENCE, OF COURSE. I have to assume that most of you who read these screeds are at least marginally aware...
SO WE’RE FUCKED, RIGHT? AND NOT IN A GOOD WAY. I have occasionally, to be honest, frequently, reposted a long piece I wrote a...
At first glance HBO’s Succession and Paramount’s Yellowstone couldn’t be more different. Succession, set in the super elite world of corporate America’s one percent,...
William Friedkin’s Academy-Award-winning The French Connection gave the cinematic world what is widely considered the greatest car chase of all time. No, Bullitt (1968)...
The worlds of mythology and folklore are packed with mysterious creatures. Some are kind and lucky, some are playful and fun-loving and others are...
Even at a safe social distance, through the prism of phone, tablet, and laptop screens, the virtual 2021 edition of the South by Southwest...
Um, hi. I know, it’s been a while since the previous Blerd Vision column in November. To be frank, a lot has gone down,...
Magic, with spells and totems. A quest, with secret tunnels and death traps. Phantasmagoria, viscera, blood and spit. Sex, death, murder. Legacy, birthright and...
The first season of The Mandalorian achieved the unthinkable. It united Star Wars fans more than any other Star Wars title since the original...
Directors releasing two films in one year will always astound me. The filmmaking process is so taxing, exhausting and all-consuming that to get one...
The classic twist at the end of the original Planet of the Apes (1968, dir. Franklin J. Schaffner) is more than just shocking. Seeing...
Until last week, I have never sat down and watched Akira Kurosawa’s 1958 classic, The Hidden Fortress – the film perhaps most credited as...
Written by Paul Kupperberg Introduction by Joe Staton Cover Art by Steven Butler I first met Paul Kupperberg at cons way back in the...
Something really bothered me as I watched the final minutes of HBO’s Game of Thrones season 8. At first I couldn’t figure it out,...
There is an ocean of games out there just waiting to be played, from the newest triple-A console release to the next smash hit...
I was watching CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER the other night, because my wife and kid were visiting her grandmother and I was holding down...
The sixth adventure for IMF agent Ethan Hunt has miraculously turned out to be the best of the series. Mission: Impossible – Fallout builds...