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Blip on the Radar: October 2007
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Blip on the Radar. Sunday, 21 October 2007. Last week I was in Vegas, because my friends were going and I'm trying to uphold my rep as the Nicest Guy in Hollywood. In my 2 day stay, I discovered that Las Vegas is at once America at its finest (and by finest I mean lowest), and kinda cool provided you can ease yourself into a level of stupidity that lets you get off on its extravagance. Software guys, huh? You're software guys, right? I can tell.". Yeah, Microsoft," Joseph lies. They may be the most unfai...
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Blip on the Radar: September 2007
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Blip on the Radar. Sunday, 9 September 2007. The Burj Dubai is about to surpass the CN Tower as the world's tallest freestanding structure. Although Toronto's CN Tower has, until now, been taller than all buildings, it could never take the tallest building claim. It is not inhabitable from the bottom to the top- lacking attractions and amusements like floors and office space. Henceforth, it doesn't qualify as a building. That's your architectural lesson of the day. In my first year of elementary school, ...
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Blip on the Radar: Cinema of Death: JOHN WICK and OUIJA
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Blip on the Radar. Friday, 24 October 2014. Cinema of Death: JOHN WICK and OUIJA. Anticipates critics comparing it to a first-person video game shooter. Intercutting stylized live-action violence with a moment of a gamer thug’s obsession underlines the movie’s simplemindedness: Keanu Reeves is wronged, and, in rock video set pieces, kills those who wronged him, and then it ends. The only spoiler one can reveal is that it has no twists or surprises. In a retrograde way, this is refreshing and it knows it.
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Blip on the Radar: March 2015
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Blip on the Radar. Monday, 30 March 2015. GET HARD and Get Angry. 8220;I think this would have been easier to watch in 2008.”. The moral flogging that’s greeted the release of Get Hard. Is less revealing of how movies have changed than of how we have. What was once accepted and ignored is now the target of op-eds like this one. What would have once been in questionable taste is now everything we are not, if we’re to be seen as good people. 8221; But I won’t. Let’s get this out of the way: Get Hard. Is an...
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Blip on the Radar: November 2008
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Blip on the Radar. Tuesday, 11 November 2008. A Manifesto: Indulgent film-crit talk, part 1 of 14. Roger Ebert recently posted a list of guidelines for being a critic. These are his rules to live by. Http:/ blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/10/eberts little rule book.html. A lot of his list seems obvious, but I like that Ebert points out how hyperbolic critics like to get. We should be careful when handing out words like "masterpiece.". I'll add some more. These are some of the words that I try to live by.
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Blip on the Radar: February 2008
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Blip on the Radar. Thursday, 28 February 2008. Stuff They Won't Teach You in School. A 10 year-old girl from Montana named Maryn Smith won a National Geographic. Contest for creating a mnemonic to remember the order and names of all 11 planets in our solar system. I thought Pluto was cancelled as a planet, and it seems unfair that National Geographic. Would throw dwarf planets Ceres and Eris on top of that. So what did Maryn Smith come up with? Smith isn't alone in her lack of mnemonic poetry giftedness&...
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Blip on the Radar: December 2014
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Blip on the Radar. Wednesday, 31 December 2014. Top Five Lists of 2014 and the Rest of Human History. Another Old Year has ended while a New Year begins, and although 2014 saw Western Culture have a collective nervous breakdown, we might just survive it. In times of change, it’s important to hold on to the things we love, and stop being so negative. As such, I won’t be doing any worst of the year lists, and will instead take inspiration from the Chris Rock movie Top Five. The Notorious B.I.G. I don’...
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Blip on the Radar: June 2013
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Blip on the Radar. Friday, 7 June 2013. I didn't know it was by Shamamwhatever. I hate that director.". And that was the part of an After Earth. After-movie convo I overheard. Granted, the marketing has done a good job of hiding director M. Night Shyamalan's involvement, and with good reason. When his name finally appeared at the front of the end credits, there was an audible groan. It's obvious: the audience that night didn't like the movie, but can we get away from this bullshit condemnatory glee?
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Blip on the Radar: GET HARD and Get Angry
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Blip on the Radar. Monday, 30 March 2015. GET HARD and Get Angry. 8220;I think this would have been easier to watch in 2008.”. The moral flogging that’s greeted the release of Get Hard. Is less revealing of how movies have changed than of how we have. What was once accepted and ignored is now the target of op-eds like this one. What would have once been in questionable taste is now everything we are not, if we’re to be seen as good people. 8221; But I won’t. Let’s get this out of the way: Get Hard. Is an...
