The Ghostbusters’ Risky Business Plan
Forget Gozer and the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. What about the cash flow problem?
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No Fate But What We Make: The Greatest Terminator Lie Ever Told
“No Fate” did not spring fully formed from James Cameron’s skull. It’s a messy doctrine from a narrative point of view, and from a meta-narrative point of view, it’s the undoing of the franchise.
Star Wars Episode I: The Tenth Anniversary Confessional Booth
Admit it: you liked Episode One when you first saw it. And you didn’t think Jar Jar was all that bad.
Bedknobs, Broomsticks, and Terminators: James Cameron’s Inspiration?
Angela Lansbury = Skynet?
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Wolfenstein 3D and the iPhone: The Odd Couple
What happens when you put a violent edgy video game onto a sleek showoff toy and take them into public?
The Pump Action Shotgun: The Sound and the Fury
Say hello to my distinctively sounding little friend.
Bruce Springsteen’s Sequel to “The Wrestler”
Given his fixation with people/things that have only one of something (ponies and tricks, dogs and legs, men with arms, etc.), we figured it’d go something like this: (Lyrics by Belinkie, Fenzel, and Lee. Guitar, piano, and vocals by Lee.) … Continued
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Dr. Manhattan, Meet Dr. Bridge and Tunnel
There is no future. There is no past. do you see, bra?
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A Photoshop—and Economic—Disaster
Americans don’t make things anymore. They Photoshop things.
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The Use of Punch and Pie as an Attendance Incentive: A Case Study
“More people will come if they think we’ll have punch and pie!”