December 2010
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Don't Eat Your Meat
The sins of Hannibal (presumably both the book and the movie, though I’m only going to be talking here about the film) are numerous, and not just limited to placing an intriguing cypher like Hannibal Lecter at the center of the story. Though if you want to revisit that well-worn argument, you could do worse than read author Alec Nevala-Lee’s take on where Thomas Harris (& other...
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The Top (Of The Bottom)
I’m as big a stan for Inception as there is, so of course I came up with my own explanations for people’s complaints about the film (or I unintentionally found ways to rephrase other people’s defenses). One of the bigger hang-ups seems to be that this film about dreams and the logic of dreams (hey, look who just realized that “dream logic” is an oxymoron)...