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THE DIG: Fearing FEAR THE WALKING DEAD
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Thursday, August 6, 2015. Fearing FEAR THE WALKING DEAD. One always hopes for the best. This week, I was asked if I'd seen the trailer for the new series. I hadn't, so I took a look at it. To my dismay, it seems one of the models for the new series was our old pal WORLD WAR Z. The FEAR THE WALKING DEAD trailer is here:. Https:/ www.youtube.com/watch? In it, we have:. Sweet domestic moment before the storm. The characters get stuck in traffic. Motorcycle rockets by their door. Do you see anything? The oth...
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THE DIG: May 2015
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Friday, May 29, 2015. A few weeks ago, I took a look at Karen Leigh Hopkins' film MISS MEADOWS, starring Katey Holmes as a smiling, ludicrously sweet schoolmarm who has a side gig as a murderous vigilante. Think DEATH WISH done as a black comedy starring Marry Poppins in the lead. Advertises it as straight- and rather heavy- drama, an horrendous. MISS MEADOWS isn't a bad. Friday, May 1, 2015. I'm doing some press criticism- or press critic criticism- at MRC Watch. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). At the Mansi...
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THE DIG: When THE WALKING DEAD Try, It Works
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Monday, March 23, 2015. When THE WALKING DEAD Try, It Works. Another week where I initially passed on writing about THE WALKING DEAD but I've decided to offer up some thoughts anyway. Try" was a big improvement over last week's installment. Rick, in his 8.0 villain mode, tells Glenn the Alexandrians don't know what they're doing. ".their rules? We don't answer to them." Glenn notes the obvious- "we are. Do anything and is skeptical of doing anything. Rick, in a very well-done sequence, confronts Jessie a...
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THE DIG: November 2014
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Sunday, November 30, 2014. Coda To Another Pointless WALKING DEAD Story. A few days ago, in the comments section of my article on THE WALKING DEAD's last installment. I offered some words on the trajectory of the series:. The season opener was one of the strongest eps of TWD ever produced and its immediate sequel was- as always. Couldn't help thinking about that while watching "Coda," tonight's stunningly lackluster mid-season finale. Like a light-switch being flipped, Maggie, who clearly doesn't underst...
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THE DIG: WORLD WAR Z (2013)
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Thursday, March 20, 2014. WORLD WAR Z (2013). I'm told (by people who would know) that Max Brooks' "World War Z" is an exceptionally good book. Modeled on Studs Terkel's "The Good War," an epic, globe-spanning "oral history" of an apocalyptic uprising of Romeroesque flesh-eating zombies Definitely my cup 'o tea and one I'll likely imbibe in the near future. Or that's what I'd like to think. Am I wrong in that? Were people really just paying for empty spectacle all along? The suspense in killer! In this f...
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THE DIG: Revisiting BATMAN BEGINS And Ends
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014. Revisiting BATMAN BEGINS And Ends. Shared in various internet forums, my article on " Comic Book Movies and What Ails 'Em. As with a lot of old films of camp value, BEGINS wasn't in on the joke- it presented that moment as something we're supposed to take entirely seriously. In explaining the film before its release, Nolan was ever. So serious about how ever so serious his movie was to be. From Variety. 8 Feb, 2004):. 1] I still haven't seen THE DARK KNIGHT, the most hyped film o...
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THE DIG: October 2014
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014. 50 Articles of THE WALKING DEAD and I. Four Walls and a Roof," this week's aggressively mediocre, watered-down installment of THE WALKING DEAD, didn't inspire me to write anything about it. Except that. Rather, I thought I'd do something a little different (and probably a lot less interesting! This is an anniversary of sorts: my 50th article about TWD. As good a time as any, I suppose, to devote a little space to my prolific relationship with this particular subject. Eventually...
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THE DIG: Self Promotion Dept.
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Friday, May 1, 2015. I'm doing some press criticism- or press critic criticism- at MRC Watch. Lately. It's a blog devoted to a critique of the Media Research Center, a big right-wing Ministry of Truth operation. I decided to take the opportunity to open what I hope will be a wider examination of the corporate press (for whenever I'm able to write it), and also launched News Reviews. A bit removed from the usual subject here. If they interest you, check 'em out. June 22, 2015 at 5:38 AM. A Hero Never Dies.
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THE DIG: February 2015
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015. The Big, Fat Disappointment: SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR (2014). Took me a while but I finally saw A DAME TO KILL FOR. Loved SIN CITY (2005). Really wanted to see this one. Bad word of mouth made me shelve it for a bit- didn't want my heart broken- but some mechanical troubles last night left me with some time on my hand- my computer has a condition- so I popped it in and gave it a once-over. Banned by the MPAA. For that matter, the movie isn't really terrible. To go to the...
