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‘Extraction 2’ Has Wrapped Filming After 5 Months of Snowy Sets
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey says that the fastest he ever said yes to a role was 1998’s The Truman Show, in which he played mild-mannered insurance salesman Truman Burbank. The dramatic comedy tells the story of a man whose day-to-day life is secretly fabricated for a TV audience. Everything from Truman’s wife to his friends to the neighborhood he lives in is part...
GLAAD Media Awards Honors Hacks, Eternals, and More in 2022 Ceremony
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey says that the fastest he ever said yes to a role was 1998’s The Truman Show, in which he played mild-mannered insurance salesman Truman Burbank. The dramatic comedy tells the story of a man whose day-to-day life is secretly fabricated for a TV audience. Everything from Truman’s wife to his friends to the neighborhood he lives in is part...
The Edge of Tomorrow: Live, Die, Repeat…
She’s called The Angel of Verdun. You also see another name scrawled in bright red over a London bus: Full Metal Bitch. When we...
Reaching for Elysium: Why the movie could have been great but wasn’t
In the “Hero’s Journey” myth, Elysium (or the Elysium Fields in Greek mythology) is the paradise that true heroes go to when they die...
Review of World War Z
I don’t watch zombie movies.I steer away from them. I find them generally tasteless, unimaginative and lacking anything remotely connected to “story”. Most appear,...
Oblivion: welcome back classic science-fiction
For classic science fiction I do not mean the one relegated to a specific period, but the one close to a romantic vision that...
“Unexpected Protocol: A Critique of the “I, Robot” Book and Motion Picture”
I reread Dr. Isaac Asimov's 50+ year old masterpiece, I, Robot, in preparation for the 2004 Twentieth Century Fox motion picture of the same...
Why “District 9” Should Have Been the Most Important Movie of 2009
Science Fiction is in its very nature a symbolic meditation on history itself—Frederic Jameson, criticWe call them “prawns”: bottom feeders, vermin: feared and hated...
Pan’s Labyrinth: Innocence Has a Power Evil Cannot Resist
Do you believe in the collective conscious? How about coincidence? What about fate? I find so often that events, occurrences, observations happen around me...