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He Makes Beats Out of Wax, Not Wings

July 14, 2008 – 11:40 am
This weekend I saw Hellboy II: The Golden Army, director Guillermo del Toro’s sequel to his 2004 adaptation of Mike Mignola’s award-winning Hellboy comic. I was souped when the comic was brought to life in the first film, but I sat agape at the sequel, which improves tenfold upon everything they got right the […]
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Easy Like Sunday Monday Morning

June 2, 2008 – 10:14 am
Although the week might technically begin on Sunday, for most working people the week starts on Monday. If the material of pretty much every stand-up comic ever is to be believed very few of these people actually like their jobs. In my estimation it’s quite likely that this is the reason why nobody’s […]
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“It means they changed something…”

November 1, 2007 – 10:58 am
It could be argued that the 1999 sci-fi/action film The Matrix, while derivative of earlier films, comics, and other literature, contributed much to modern American pop-culture. Without The Matrix Wuxiá cinema probably wouldn’t have enjoyed the renaissance it had on these shores (and fight choreographer Yuen Wo Ping certainly wouldn’t have gotten as many high […]
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