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Archive for the ‘Television’ Category. Sports Documentary Review – 30 For 30 #9: O.J.: Made in America. July 31, 2016. Aired to critical acclaim and enough Emmy nominations to fill a white Ford Bronco. More recently, ESPN’s prolific sports documentary series 30 For 30. Went to air with the troubled, searching, complex, and subtly pained five-part, nearly eight-hour film O.J.: Made in America. Directed by Ezra Edelman, O.J.: Made in America. The Juice lived the Dream, moving in the corporate world, golfin...
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indieseen: waiting for this
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Friday, September 02, 2011. Ok, yesterday was just weird. I did manage to squeeze in some extra special nail polishin', just in time for the weekend. My toes are the same- though my right hand is not. I've learned over the years that my left hand is just not as steady at stuff like painting tiny designs on the opposite hand. See here. In my basket and away I go. Friendly Manitoba comes to life. Quite possibly the worst part of yesterday (there's more? Coming tonight, just parking the car? Well then hang ...
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Film Review: Burke & Hare | rosslangager
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Film Review: Burke & Hare. Film Review: Burke & Hare. August 7, 2015. 2010; Directed by John Landis). There could be a great, dark-comic, socially and historically resonant genre film to be drawn out of the 1828 murder spree. Lightly touches on all of these elements, but never grasps onto any of them with the teeth of satire. It’s a superficial concoction, its comedy painfully unsubtle and prone to mugging, and not nearly as funny or subversively shocking as believes itself to be. And its moody environs ...
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Slurpees and Murder: Ask James Anything Month: We Get Stacks and Stacks of Letters
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Living In, Living With, and Living Through Winnipeg. Monday, March 31, 2014. Ask James Anything Month: We Get Stacks and Stacks of Letters. Greetings from a motel in Yorkton, Saskatchewan! It's been quite the whirlwind month for me since last we spoke; I've overseen the final episode of Winnipeg Internet Pundits. Entrusted the physical Slurpees and Murder Record Club collection (there were a lot. Of records) to radiomaking sensation. Guested on an episode of City Circus. Anonymous, 2014-03-02 08:08.
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Film Review – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 | rosslangager
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Film Review – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. Film Review – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. July 29, 2015. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. 2014; Directed by Francis Lawrence). In the first half of the concluding chapter of. Cinematic quadrilogy, the core characters’ struggles take the form of open political machinations. Previously. A long-hidden but secretly active faction of rebels is in open revolt against the brutal authoritarian regime of the Capitol. Mockingjay – Part 1. Choosi...
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Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category. Film Review: They Live. August 31, 2016. 1988; Directed by John Carpenter). I’m giving you a choice: either put on these glasses, or start eating that trashcan! This sequence is the central fulcrum of John Carpenter’s They Live. Not merely to entertain on a B-movie level but also to advance countercultural sociopolitical themes. They Live. Is certainly the apotheosis of his method, although Carpenter devotees might advance Big Trouble in Little China. Certainly summons...
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Politics | rosslangager
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Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category. Film Review: They Live. August 31, 2016. 1988; Directed by John Carpenter). I’m giving you a choice: either put on these glasses, or start eating that trashcan! This sequence is the central fulcrum of John Carpenter’s They Live. Not merely to entertain on a B-movie level but also to advance countercultural sociopolitical themes. They Live. Is certainly the apotheosis of his method, although Carpenter devotees might advance Big Trouble in Little China. Certainly summon...
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Sports Documentary Review: 30 for 30 #1 – 9.79* | rosslangager
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Sports Documentary Review: 30 for 30 #1 – 9.79*. Sports Documentary Review: 30 for 30 #1 – 9.79*. January 13, 2013. A new RandomDanglingMystery project will involve viewing and reviewing as many of ESPN’s. As is humanly possible. And/or critically necessary. Check in for future reviews of these films. Directed by Daniel Gordon). How Johnson was actually caught: someone shouted “Are you on drugs? With an American audience on ESPN at least partially being considered by director Daniel Gordon,. To render hi...
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TV Quickshots # 23 | rosslangager
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TV Quickshots # 23. TV Quickshots # 23. August 11, 2015. Written, filmed, and aired in both English and Welsh,. The latter tone predominates, fulfilling the rough-hewn promise of the show’s English title and painting the region as the Appalachians of the British Isles. Its Welsh title,. Translates as “The Dusk”, a more poetic moniker and less of a backhanded shot at the perceived parochial nature of Wales and its inhabitants. Indeed, although. For all of its hard-bitten Welsh gothic quality. Is a well-ma...
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Film Review: They Live. August 31, 2016. 1988; Directed by John Carpenter). I’m giving you a choice: either put on these glasses, or start eating that trashcan! This sequence is the central fulcrum of John Carpenter’s They Live. During the peak of his powers in 1980s Reaganite America, Carpenter was nothing if not a broad filmmaker, utilizing cornpone dialogue, hammy leading-man action-hero acting and action, and blatantly illustrative music (he not only directed but also wrote and scored They Live.
