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Unfilmable?: Huckleberry Finn
Many of Hollywood’s films begin life as books. Some Hollywood executive, actor, or screenwriter reads a book they enjoy, they go and acquire the rights, and they produce a screenplay based on it, which...
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A Monopoly on Loathing
Let’s talk about board games for a little bit. It’ll come around to movies and other things eventually, but for now, the discussion will be starting off with board games. Specifically, one particular...
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Reflecting on 1000 Films
Gammera the Invincible (reviewed here) marks a big milestone for me. It’s the 1000th theatrically-released feature film that I’ve seen and rated on IMDb. That’s full-length feature films, not shorts,...
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Going in Blind
With some of the films I’ve been watching lately, a thought has entered my mind. In just about every case, it was a film I’d heard of in the past; sometimes a film I’d heard quite a bit about. Now,...
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What constitutes a Christmas movie?
We’re currently marching our way through the month of December, and as with years past, I’m trying to maintain a festive air around the blog by including a fair number of Christmas movies in my...
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Non-Obvious Christmas Movies?
We’re about 2/3rds of the way through the Christmas season, and so far I’ve put up 8 new Christmas Cinema reviews, with a 9th to come tomorrow. But I have to admit that it hasn’t been the easiest thing...
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Oscarama Stats: Questions of Content
Scattered throughout Oscarama I’ll be posting a few interesting statistics on the Academy Awards’ Best Picture category. (Well, I find them interesting anyway.) We often find ourselves making comments...
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Oscarama Stats: Release Month
I remember back when 2008’s Oscar nominees were announced, and I was a regular visitor to a few different comic book forums. There was, of course, a lot of discussion on whether or not The Dark Knight...
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Oscarama Stats: Ratings
For today, another simple look at the statistics of the Oscars. This time around, I’m looking at the MPAA ratings assigned to the movies — just to see what sort of films get nominated for Best Picture,...
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Why Horror Movies Tend to Get Negative Reviews
Note: I wrote this essay a few weeks ago in response to a poster on Reddit asking why scary movies always seem to get low ratings and bad reviews. Although I think my Halloween Haunters reviews have...
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Digital Downsizing
I am no prophet. I don’t see into the future, and if I make any prognostications that turn out to be correct, it is only because I have looked at the existing situation, connected the dots, and...
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On the Origin of Jokers
If there’s one trope that superhero stories love the most, it has to be the origin story. Whether it’s in the movies, on television, or in the comic books themselves, if somebody’s wearing a costume...
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Samhain’s Sanctum
I fiddle around with 3D graphics — as long-time readers will have noted in the blog headers — but I don’t usually post my art here on the blog. After all, the blog is here to discuss other peoples’...
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Oscarama Stats: Same Actor, Same Role
It’s awards season again, and this past week brought out the nominations for the 2015 Academy Awards. As always, there’s a lot that people are discussing, from the racial makeup of the nominees to the...
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