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Freelance writer/artist/filmmaker. Formerly with Collider.
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Everyone else has hailed David Lynch's other achievements, but I'll add this: however uneven his DUNE is as an adaptation (and however much it pained him), it was far more successful at creating a sense of a multicultural universe with a deep history, and he provided better eye protein:

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

If classics have to be remade, better that each version have a distinct identity. Original NOSFERATU: Expressionist, lyrical horror Herzog NOSFERATU: Meditative, transitional horror Eggers NOSFERATU: Sometimes heavy and ponderous, sometimes aggressive horror.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

I believe that anyone who says making music is not enjoyable hasn’t created music, or has been unfortunate to have had a bad experience, a bad teacher, etc. Creating things like art or music is not a chore. We sweep floors to make them clean, but we make things to make things.

submitted 43 days ago • 21 comments

To take off a bit from the linked article - when it comes to movies, fantasy, sci-fi, and pretty much all speculative/genre fiction benefit from scarcity. Part of the power behind old Godzilla/Harryhausen films or METROPOLIS epics is that there were so few of them, b/c they were so hard to do well.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

With those color choices, I thought for a second this was some crossover with Gandalf leading the Night's Watch.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Spent most of the year with the itch to re-watch the best PETER PAN movie, and last week, I finally did (I forgot it was set at Christmas, but whatever excuse to get it on a streaming platform I can watch, I'll take).

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment