Category Archives: Literature
Tron Legacy
Tron Truancy I keep meaning to put this post up but I keep getting overtaken by other things. it’s a bit like how I avoided this film for a long time. There’s something not quite compelling about this movie at … Continue reading
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Anonymous
Shakespeare In Hell For a long time there’s been a strand of Shakespeare scholarship that contends William Shakespeare didn’t write plays credited to William Shakespeare. It might seem novel to those who do not know it, but it’s actually an … Continue reading
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John Carter
It’s Barsoom, With A Bloom It’s taken a long time for the original pulp space opera to make it to the big screen. To be fair, the spectacle of 15foot tall green aliens with extra limbs called Tharks was going … Continue reading
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Memento Mori Theory Of Art
Depictions of Death Make For Important Art Over the break I wanted to briefly write down some observations about the power of memento mori, but then I lost my post; then I tried to reconstruct it and lost my train … Continue reading
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‘Everything Must Go’
Down And Out In Arizona I should have done a movie double of this film with ‘Company Men’, or perhaps even ‘Changing Lanes’. You can link this film to the former with the subtext of corporate America while you could … Continue reading
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Movie Doubles – ‘The Eagle’ & ‘Tucker & Dale Vs Evil’
The Heart of Darkness As Broken Metaphor Today’s movie double is an accidental doubleheader thanks to the fine machine from Fetch TV. A little word on IP-TV in Australia – it’s still way slow in parts but it’s only going … Continue reading
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Comic Book Movies
Frank Miller Is A Cryptofascist, You Say? That Action Guy sent me a link this week which probably merits some discussion. It’s about Frank Miller and how he’s a cryptofascist, and how cryptofascism abounds in Hollywood. The film 300, directed … Continue reading
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History Is Now
The Sum Total of Human Experience For 2000 Years A little while ago the Economist put up this chart in their Daily Chart section. I’ve been meaning to blog it but life has a way of getting in the way … Continue reading
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Movie Doubles – ‘The Hangover Part II’ & ‘Limitless’
Hello Bradley Cooper I haven’t done one of these for a while for no real reason other than it’s quite hard to get excited about films lately. Maybe I’m getting jaded like some critic but the n-th time you see … Continue reading
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