In Robin Wood's 1981 introduction to his seminal study of Howard Hawks, Wood cites "an extreme and habitual self-consciousness" as a characteristic of modern art, one to which he has…
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If you think I'm going to easily let go of the fact that Channing Tatum's character in White House Down is named "John Cale," you don't know me very well.…
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HOMAGE TO WBY after you read all them books all that history and philosophy and things what do you know that you didn’t know before? Thin sheets of gold…
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The New Zealand International Film Festival was launched in Auckland and Dan was there. Back at the multiplex, Seth Rogen, James Franco and Jay Baruchel play themselves at the end…
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I went on a bit of a Faulkner reading jag recently, looking into As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, and Pylon for the first time since college at least. The experience…
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Bloodless zombies would appear to be that latest trend if April’s Warm Bodies and this week’s World War Z are anything to go by. No blood means studios get a…
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