Good Is The New Bad – Film Reviews And More

The films Fight Club, A Beautiful Mind, The Machinist, Secret Window and Donnie Darko all share a common theme: the antagonists exist solely in the minds of the protagonists. I find the more compelling link is that these five protagonists all suffer from an intense anxiety and loneliness. It is this internal struggle, the conflict [...]

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Making movies about television is a tricky business. The Marshall McLuhan phrase “the medium is the message” might be a cliché, but when you’re using the conventions of one medium to examine another, it’s one hundred percent true. Crossing media formats is like translating Latin to Greek, and you can’t articulate a thought in one [...]

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Conspiracy stories are the post-modern era’s religion. The powers that shape, control, and run the world are so distant that one can’t help but ask “what if”? Ancient man told fireside tales of gods chasing the sun across the sky. Modern man tells tales of grassy knolls, rigged elections, and government conspiracies that suppress the [...]

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