Dichotomous Purity

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Friday, July 31, 2026

The Odyssey, but not epic poetry

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The question of adaptation has been an open one in culture since people began doing them in other media, as it were. Just like the fact that...
Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Still no story 2

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So here's a great example of how attempts at storytelling (and, likely, test screenings) have evolved in the past 20 years. The Devil We...
Sunday, July 26, 2026

The Devil needs a plot

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Continuing my now seemingly monthly schedule of posts (I will likely get back to Spider-Noir , but it was as uninspiring as noted), I once a...
Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Just gray

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There's something primal about certain media in black-and-white. Most noir films were done in the pre-color era and the tone and atmosph...
Thursday, May 14, 2026

Impressions

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After a long absence, I can finally do the MacArthur thing on this blog ("I have returned."), not least because I'm also now s...
Saturday, January 24, 2026

Unbridled outrage and the lack of conclusions

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Since we're no longer members of the Michigan Theater, we've been seeing fewer films, as you might expect. So when the Oscar nominat...
Thursday, December 25, 2025

Three days in New York

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We had to go to NYC to put in a visa application and, contrary to the title, it was more like 2.5 days, really, since we flew in early Sunda...
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