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- RT @samplereality: CC: @ckunzelman RT @20percentcheap Your albatross was $404? Why not buy an alpaca for only $323! 1 hour ago
- @BMunise different modes of presentation but the same core idea 1 hour ago
- @BMunise both, but where TLOU revels in nature after humans TR mourns the loss of nature (probably more than it does the loss of humans) 1 hour ago
- look y'all I don't know what you got out of The Road but The Last of Us really is a retread of the same thesis (but with nail bombs) 2 hours ago
- @BooDooPerson @brianmtaylor psssht obvs you don't know your Spivak joel 2 hours ago
- nihilism fills me with energy 2 hours ago
- @BooDooPerson yeah, I feel you -- I've been on it on twitter more than in that piece 2 hours ago
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Tag Archives: film
Riff Raff’s Favorite Ethan Hawke Movie
On his favorite Ethan Hawke movie: “Reality Bites and Tremors.” Riff Raff has been reviewing movies lately.
Vorpalizer on fantasy film and worldbuilding
The great temptation, the fatal temptation, of adult fans of fantastic fiction is the temptation of Law. We want the contents of our imagination taxonomied and classified, ordered and indexed, subject to rules and regulations. Gaps exist to be filled. … Continue reading
Video Game Critics: Check Out Some History
As some of you may know, I am technically in a film studies program even though I don’t do film work whatsoever. One of the required courses for my degree is an Advanced Film Theory course. In essence, the class … Continue reading
On Django Unchained
I saw Django Unchained over the past weekend. I liked it a lot. I’m going to try to work out why I liked it so much in as few words as possible. Historically when I write about movies, I tend to go for … Continue reading
Posted in General Features
Tagged discomfort, django unchained, film, quentin tarantino, revenge
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Two New Essays That Are Brilliant
So there are two essays that have come out recently that I think are awesome. I want you to check them out. The first is James Stanescu’s “Toward a Dark Animal Studies: On Vegetarian Vampires, Beautiful Souls, and Becoming-Vegan.” I … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged animals, art, film, melancholia, philosophy, scu, steven shaviro, tim morton
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David Mitchell on Films
. . . the vacant disneyarium was a haunting frame for those lost, rainy landscapes. Giants strode the screen, lit by sunlite captured through a lens when your grandfather’s grandfather, Archivist, was kicking in his natural womb. Time is the … Continue reading
On The Dark Knight Rises
I finally saw The Dark Knight Rises. Obviously, this post is going to spoiler-heavy. I enjoyed The Dark Knight Rises. I had a wonderful time watching it. I’m going to do something incredibly lazy, but also really worthwhile: I’m going to tell you a … Continue reading
