Author: Chuck
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Electric Sheep
HBO’s Westworld is as much of a post-millennial meta-textual exercise as the original was a 1970s fear-of-technology thriller. That doesn’t mean it has nothing to say, though. Spoilers for the first three episodes.
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1984 Upside Down, or, Use Your Allusions
Stranger Things would still be pretty great if it were just a shameless pastiche of 80s movies, but it ends up transcending that.
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First They Came For The Valleywags, and I Said Nothing
Navigating the minefield of principled opinions that results when wealthy strangers sue each other.
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One of the Good Ones
Zootopia is surprisingly great, and a reminder of the value of family movies as parable
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Would That It Were So Simple
A cursory and non-reductive look at Hail, Caesar! by Joel and Ethan Coen
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Why I’m Excited About Firewatch
The future of independent game development is now! Or at least two years ago!
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Exit, surrounded by Muppets
Tremendous respect for David Bowie, and a theory on what seems truly alien
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It’s a Shame About Rey
Another note about The Force Awakens, merchandising, and spoiler culture. Contains huge spoilers, obviously.
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It’s True. All of It.
Why I unabashedly love Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and how much I’ve missed being able to unabashedly love a movie