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18 Oct

Brains or brawn: the active Jew fantasy

Inglorious Basterds and Train of Life, two modern reimaginings of holocaust resistance – are they just lofty fantasy, or something more?

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Human Rights, Literature
Tagged brad pitt, fantasy, film, hitler, holocaust, information, Inglorious Basterds, metafiction, Movies, narrative, online, reimagining, subjectivity, tarantino, Train of Life, war, wwii
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28 Sep

District 9: just sci-fi

Though it wants to be an extended metaphor for South African apartheid, Neil Blomkamp’s sci-fi epic is just a sci-fi epic.

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Art, Pop Culture
Tagged aliens, allegory, blomkamp, district 9, jackson, metaphor, movie, prawns, racism, sci-fi, south africa
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16 Sep

Faith in fantasy

Psychological fantasy films and the path to the unreal in art.

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Art, Literature, Music, Pop Culture, Video Games
Tagged Art, beatles, belief, faith, fantasy, imagination, mmog, narrative, pan's labyrinth, sci-fi, subjectivity, text, the orphanage, unreal, world of warcraft
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15 Sep

The Movie Franchise Killed the Comic Book Star

Why Disney’s Marvel acquisition signals the death of comic books but the survival of superhero mythology.

By Alex Cybulski
Also posted in Art, Literature, Pop Culture
Tagged batman, Comic books, DC, Disney, franchises, icon, Marvel, Movies, mythology, narrative, sign, spider-man, superhero, superheroes, superman, symbol, writing
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20 Aug

Everybody Hertz: Jim Munroe on indie gaming

Author, comic book writer and sometime award-winning videogame creator Jim Munroe talks about the wonderful world of independent games.

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Art, Literature, Music, Pop Culture, Technology, Video Games
Tagged arcade, artsy games incubator, corporate, everybody dies, freeconomics, Games, hand eye society, indie, jim munroe, metanet, nanobots, no media kings, queasy games, retro, savoir faire, sword of my mouth, Toronto, ubisoft toronto, video games, zombie cow
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16 Aug

Dawn of the debt

Why our ongoing zombie fiction craze could be related to the recession.

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Art, Journalism, Literature, Pop Culture, Video Games
Tagged big brother, dead set, debt, Internet, jennifer gardy, left 4 dead, mathematics, narrative, recession, the strain, undead, Walking Dead, when zombies attack!, zombie
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13 Aug

I hate great movie soundtracks

Or, the plight of the music snob who partakes in recreational cinema visits.

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Music, Pop Culture
Tagged 500 days of summer, indie music, juno, Movies, Music, soundtracks, temper trap, the oc, the pixies, the smiths
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10 Aug

Bowling with a broken ball

Art and Science face off in a bowling match for the ages. So it begins.

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Art, Literature, Music, Video Games
Tagged Art, bowling, brooks, distorted, eye, hamlet, indirections, language, paradox, perception, poetry, science, shakespeare
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27 Jul

“Way too gay”

Why Bruno isn’t working for North American viewers.

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Pop Culture
Tagged Borat, Bruno, gay, homosexual, North America, queer, Sacha Baron Cohen
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Category Archive: Movies

Brains or brawn: the active Jew fantasy

Brains or brawn: the active Jew fantasy

District 9: just sci-fi

District 9: just sci-fi

Faith in fantasy

Faith in fantasy

The Movie Franchise Killed the Comic Book Star

The Movie Franchise Killed the Comic Book Star

Everybody Hertz: Jim Munroe on indie gaming

Everybody Hertz: Jim Munroe on indie gaming

Dawn of the debt

Dawn of the debt

I hate great movie soundtracks

I hate great movie soundtracks

Bowling with a broken ball

Bowling with a broken ball

“Way too gay”

“Way too gay”

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