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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 1)
I’m not the world’s most aredent Harry Potter Fan. Â I read the first three books partly out of a sense of generational obligation, and partly out of mild curiosity, but always found their Lord of the Rings-lite sensibilities to be more than a bit uninteresting. Â They were entertaining and charming, but midway through Goblet of […]
Glory Road
“Glory Road” is a good illustration of just how hard it is for movies to do what sports do. They rarely do anything to challenge our views, but rather reinforce our comfort in what we already assume. Ironically, they have a habit of acting as if they are saying something revolutionary.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
All stories, be they novels, vignettes, movies, poems, or any number of media by which tales are told, start out as ideas. “Hey, what if…” “Wouldn’t it be cool…” “Ok, so there’s this guy…” In the motion picture realm, these ideas can lead to horrendous results (“Robots that turn into cars!” “A talking duck!” “Let’s […]
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