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Sometimes you just need old favorites: A Year in Movies 2021 – Part 4
In December of 2020, when it became clear we were not going to be returning to normal life any time soon, we purchased a big honking 55-inch 4K TV and settled in for a year of watching movies at home. … Continue reading
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A Murder of Hitchcock Films: A Year in Movies 2021 – Part 3
In December of 2020, when it became clear we were not going to be returning to normal life any time soon, we purchased a big honking 55-inch 4K TV and settled in for a year of watching movies at home. … Continue reading
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A Year in Movies 2021 – Part 2: Chillin’ with Deathtrap and Dickens
In December of 2020, when it became clear we were not going to be returning to normal life any time soon, we purchased a big honking 55-inch 4K TV and settled in for a year of watching movies at home. … Continue reading
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A Year in Movies 2021 – Part 1
2021 was a rough year, given a pandemic that kept many of us at home for much of the year. There were also public conflicts over people refusing masks and vaccinations. In my home, we wondered: Could we go out … Continue reading
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Everything is a Remix – Apocalypse Pooh
Back in 1987, comedian and filmmaker Todd Graham had a thought. What if he combined sequences from Francis Ford Coppola’s classic reboot of “Heart of Darkness” Apocalypse Now with segments of the Disney version of Winnie the Pooh and the Honey … Continue reading
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In The Heights, Returning to Theaters, and the Importance of Representation
While I’ve always been a big fan of action and sci-fi flicks, the movie I’ve been most excited about seeing this summer has been Lin-Manuel Miranda’s (Hamilton) and Jon Chu’s (Crazy Rich Asians) musical extravaganza In The Heights. In the Heights … Continue reading
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Tagged HBO Max, Lin-Manuel Miranda, movies, race, Warner Brothers
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Director James Gunn takes on critics of “cancel culture”
Movie director James Gunn has had his own personal run-in with the so-called “cancel culture,” aka being held accountable for things you have said. As you may recall, long before Gunn became a big-time Marvel Cinematic Universe director of the … Continue reading
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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
Why did it take so long for Quaker Oats to abandon Aunt Jemima as a pancake brand? Aunt Jemima has a new name: the Pearl Milling Company. Quaker Oats announced it would drop the name Aunt Jemima last summer after … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, BLM, books, branding, Fox News, Hamilton, libraries, movies, Oscars, racism, social media
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Will “Everyone’s Gone to the Movies” be true again?
Back in May, I wrote a long post about the effects the COVID19 pandemic is having on the movie and movie theater industries. The short version? It’s a disaster. Theaters stayed closed for months and movie producers have had to … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Nolan, covid readings, covid19, movies, Tenet
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Memories from 9/11 – Musicals, Movies and Motorcycles
It was 19 years ago this morning that I was teaching my freshman media literacy course at West Virginia University. I had a class with close to 350 students in it.C-SPAN’s Washington Journal morning show was playing on the big screen as … Continue reading
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