Rust and Bone (2012)
Brutal Romanticism "If we continue, we have to do it right." Jacques Audiard’s unflinching melodrama is an exploration of how physical...
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Rich
- Apr 21
- 4 min
Bats and Ravens
Once upon a midnight dreary... On October 3rd, 1849, one of the great literary figures of the 19th century was found in a state of...
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- Apr 21
- 1 min
Classic Scenes: Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Horror... "You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill...
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- Apr 21
- 1 min
Broken Bells: After the Disco (2014)
A Supergroup Returns Broken Bells' second album, After the Disco showcases the intricate beats and articulate, electronic compositions...
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Rich
- Apr 20
- 5 min
Classic Albums: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974)
Gabriel's Swan Song 'Early morning Manhattan, Ocean winds blow on the land...' Out of all the albums I have bought over the years, the...
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- Apr 20
- 4 min
75 Years of Superman - Part VI
Choices ‘Superman comics are a fable, not of strength, but of disintegration. They appeal to the preadolescent mind not because they...
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- Apr 20
- 8 min
75 Years of Superman - Part V
Origin(al) Tales "Krypton bred me, but it was Earth that gave me all I am." The Man of Steel, John Byrne (1986) Delving in to the...
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- Apr 20
- 5 min
75 Years of Superman - Part IV
On Screen "What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From...
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- Apr 20
- 4 min
75 Years of Superman - Part III
Truth, Justice and the American Way "Superman has the big the big S on his uniform – we should, I suppose, be thankful that it is not an...
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- Apr 19
- 5 min
75 Years of Superman - Part II
Power and Invention "Up in the sky! Look!...It's a bird!...It's a plane!...It's Superman! The Adventures of Superman, Radio serial During...
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- Apr 18
- 4 min
75 Years of Superman - Part I
First of His Kind "I will teach you the Superman.’" Friedrich Nietzsche In their 1932 short story, "The Reign of the Superman", Jerry...
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- Apr 18
- 3 min
75 Years of Superman - Introduction
Man of Steel. Man of Tomorrow. "Only the weak succumb to brutality." Superman, Kingdom Come As America began to climb out of the Great...
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Rich
- Apr 18
- 3 min
End of Watch (2012)
These are the Good Guys. "I am a consequence. I am the unpaid bill. I am fate with a badge and a gun. Behind my badge is a heart like...
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Rich
- Apr 18
- 1 min
About a Girl (short film, 2001)
Sucker Punched '"He never let's us 'ave nuffin'...it's always, 'Do a' look like a f***in' bank?!' She says she's not gor enough saved for...
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Rich
- Apr 18
- 2 min
The Nao of Brown
A Sequential State of Mind ‘I had a feeling something wasn’t right, it was over my shoulder and inching up on me…it doesn’t always happen...
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Rich
- Apr 17
- 5 min
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Silence and Monsters "Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, no nonsense about...
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Rich
- Apr 17
- 2 min
M83 Trilogy (2011)
The Cerebral Soundscape of Anthony Gonzalez "I love composing music and making music with pictures in my head, it's really what's driving...
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Rich
- Apr 16
- 2 min
Milius (2013)
Tales of a Hollywood Maverick "He doesn't write for pussies and he doesn't write for women. He writes for men. Because he's a man." Sam...
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Rich
- Apr 16
- 2 min
Bunraku (2010)
A silent mix of loud style and tradition “Great lessons are often found in defeat.” There’s a lot to enjoy in Guy Moshe’s cocktail of...
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- Apr 16
- 2 min
Ulrich Schnauss: A Long Way to Fall (2013)
Much more than ambient abandonment I first discovered the ambient sounds of Ulrich Schnauss back in 2004 when I returned to University...
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