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Tuesday, 16 December 2025
quote [ On the 30th anniversary of his influential heist classic, the Chicago-born director discusses the real-life cop-versus-robber rivalry that sparked the film?s creation. ]
Come De Niro e Pacino in Heat
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Saturday, 13 December 2025
quote [ Frank Capra?s dark vision of corruption and greed highlights both the dangers of concentrated power and the quiet effectiveness of collective action. ]
And you'll see it's a wonderful life
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Wednesday, 22 October 2025
quote [ The shift from physical media to streaming didn?t create the phenomenon of retroactively editing a piece after airing. It?s a favorite hobby of George Lucas. Nor is it limited to film and television; The Nancy Drew novels were revised in the late ?50s to remove racist caricatures. This is a well-intentioned, if ahistorical version of this. ]
Unwinnable has a Disco Elysium special which made me stumble over this non-disco-elysian musing over how pop culture is getting revised in the making.
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Saturday, 27 September 2025
quote [ 50 years after Roger Ebert was the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize, Chicago is emblematic of the stark decline in film criticism. ]
I was analyzing like a film critic
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Tuesday, 23 September 2025
quote [ MY DINNER WITH SKINNER (1996)featuringReegan Bourgeois as Principal SkinnerTerrence Ferguson as Superintendent Chalmers ]
Beyond the walls of Steamed Ham
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Sunday, 29 June 2025
quote [ She (1935) it appears to be a typical 1930s adventure movie but at the same time it is not, it does have something special about it. I felt a total of about 15 minutes of this movie was magical, done with great love and care. The scenography is pretty good during the whole second half. The story is about love with juxtaposing immortality and mortality, so has some vampiric romance elements to it. Of course there are plenty of flaws, as expected from a 90 years old movie. ]
Via Mastodon gamedev movie recommendations. Main link goes to internet archive. Campy film made of a 1887 Gothic novel.
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Saturday, 21 June 2025
quote [ Notably, despite widespread public misunderstanding of this issue among the amateur shark enthusiast community, the shark fin soup trade has not been the biggest threat to sharks in more than a decade. ]
Stuff about this movie popping up everywhere due to 50th anniversary .. this article has some more infos on nautical conservation efforts.
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Sunday, 15 June 2025
quote [ Here's a thunder of great screen dragons, including one that might be considered toothless. ]
Spit that fye sci fi movie for a dragon
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Thursday, 12 June 2025
quote [ "The Schwartz Awakens in 2027." Check out the Spaceballs 2 announcement teaser for this upcoming sequel to the iconic sci-fi comedy adventure film. ]
MAY THE SCHWARTZ BE YOU YOU.
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Tuesday, 27 May 2025
quote [ I find Film borderline unwatchable, but I?m the sort of guy who got IMAX tickets for Mission: Impossible ? Final Reckoning on opening weekend for me and my son. Tomorrow, actually.
[?] Note: I apologize for a number of missing citations still present. I lost my document tracking those, but in the spirit of the article I swear I?ll fix it in reshoots. ] So I spent 30min reading an article about spontaneous filmmaking while quoting and defending Tom Cruise, Jackie Chan and Buster Keaton.
+45min trying to recompress that GIF. phew. [Edit: and learning that you can only upload up to 300px GIFs]
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