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Cowboys & Aliens: Extraterrestrial Manifest Destiny And Its Enduring White Gaze

June 21, 2021 By Dali Adekunle 1 Comment

On November 15, 2020, NASA and SpaceX partnered to launch a six-month science mission on the International Space Station. Despite the ravages of COVID-19, NASA’s collaboration with this brainchild of Elon Musk, himself a product of an apartheid South African emerald mining fortune, solidifies the “final frontier” as yet another domain for colonial capitalist dominance.  […]

Op-Ed

Søren and J’s Oscarcast 2015

March 26, 2015 By Søren Hough Leave a Comment

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2015 was a year of meager expectations when it came to the Oscars. While controversy surrounded the nomination process, we generally knew who’d take home the major awards. No one gasped in amazement when Birdman took Best Cinematography, or when Patricia Arquette was named Best Supporting Actress for Boyhood. Yet sometimes there is intrigue to be found […]

Op-Ed

Movie Fail Tweets the 2015 Academy Awards

February 22, 2015 By Søren Hough Leave a Comment

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Keep it locked here for the Movie Fail live Twitter coverage of the 87th Academy Awards ceremony! The full list of 2015 Oscar nominees can be found here. The one and only Neil Patrick Harris will be hosting. The festivities begin at 7 pm EST on ABC (or online). Tweets by @MovieFailBlog We want to hear […]

Op-Ed

Nate’s Top 10 Films of 2014

January 20, 2015 By Nathan Frontiero 1 Comment

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So many movies released in the past twelve months felt like advertisements that it was nice when the year periodically decided to come back from commercial break. That doesn’t mean that every non-blockbuster was a masterpiece. For every gem like The Grand Budapest Hotel there were duds like Palo Alto or Transcendence. And don’t get me started on The Giver again. I […]

Op-Ed

Thibault’s Top Movies of 2014

January 6, 2015 By Thibault Jalby Leave a Comment

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2014 was a great year for the cinema industry from a critical standpoint, even if it was a terrible year business-wise. Failing box office returns were almost a good thing; I enjoyed the quieter transitional period for U.S. film before we head into a year laden with mega-franchises (Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Avengers, etc.). I discovered comparatively smaller movies in that time, […]

Interview

Douglas Trumbull, SFX Supervisor on 2001: A Space Odyssey

December 30, 2014 By Søren Hough 3 Comments

It began with something Stanley Kubrick once said. With 2001: A Space Odyssey, he felt he owed the audience an experience. He wanted to use Cinerama to show people what it was like to fly through space. This was ambitious for 1968, but it worked. The film has certainly stood the test of time, due […]

Op-Ed

Following from a Nascent Nolan

December 18, 2014 By Jonny Smith 2 Comments

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While innovative, hugely popular big budget blockbusters are Christopher Nolan’s staple these days, life wasn’t always so glamorous for the English director. Sixteen years ago, Nolan made his foray into feature-length filmmaking with the ultra-low budget (£3,000) Following. This often forgotten gem of an independent film is unquestionably nascent Nolan. Watching Following in the context of his subsequent productions offers a fascinating insight […]

Movie Review

Interstellar with Nate and Søren

November 26, 2014 By Nathan Frontiero and Søren Hough 5 Comments

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Nate’s Review Interstellar surprised me. I walked into the theater expecting to see a bombastic space exploration flick. I did not expect the film to bring me to tears, but it did. The plot is centered on the final frontier, but Christopher Nolan’s latest is more than that. There’s a soul beneath the science-fiction spectacle. […]

Op-Ed

Dare to Dream of a Better Christopher Nolan

December 10, 2013 By Søren Hough 3 Comments

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This is a multilayered dreamscape, and you are at its core. You are finished dreaming and would like to regain your consciousness. And in order to ascend, you must get a “kick” to wake up in the next level of the dream world. Under normal circumstances, one can achieve this kick by “dying” – by […]

London Film Festival 2024 Highlights

November 1, 2024 By Søren Hough

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October 20, 2024 By Søren Hough

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