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To The Wonder: Malick Pixie Dream Girls
December 17, 2013 – 10:00 AM | 5 Comments
<em>To The Wonder</em>: Malick Pixie Dream Girls

Terrence Malick’s storytelling style is so valuable; it creates so many opportunities and points of view. It opens things up. But it opens itself up to parody so easily, and it’s difficult for any other …

25/31: Midnight in Paris
December 26, 2011 – 3:05 PM | 10 Comments
25/31: <I>Midnight in Paris</I>

Woody Allen stand-ins work best when played by Woody Allen himself. Allen’s voice is so distinctive, and his heroes generally so him despite cosmetic name changes (Alvy Singer, Larry Lipton), that in other hands the …

Sherlock Holmes: 221B-plus
January 4, 2010 – 8:54 AM | 46 Comments
<I>Sherlock Holmes</I>: 221B-plus

(On a not-unrelated note: Can we collectively resolve for 2010 to retire the term “steampunk”? Perhaps the term isn’t as irritating to those who didn’t already live through the style in its “NuRo” incarnation, but …