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Category Archives: Readings
TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING: THE DARK KNIGHT RISES TO OCCUPY AMERICA
FIRST OF ALL, HAPPY NEW YEARS! AFTER 2 WEEKS OF GUEST POSTS, I’M BACK. I recently saw the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises at the cinema and knew I had to write about it. Now that I’ve watched it … Continue reading
Posted in Observations and Provocations, Readings
Tagged ann hathaway, Batman, christian bale, christopher nolan, DC comics, gary oldman, gotham, joseph gordon levitt, koch brothers, legendary, Marion Cotillard, michael caine, Occupy wall street, paranoid fantasy, propaganda, reactionary politics, the dark knight rises, tom hardy, Trailers, warner bros.
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Homage to THOMAS CROWN: DUPLICITY Strikes a Nostalgic Note
Made for $60M but grossing only $40M, Duplicity was a 2009 box office flop about two former spies turned corporate security experts who team up to defraud their respective companies while wondering whether they are being conned by each other. … Continue reading
Posted in Readings
Tagged clive owen, duplicity, editing, faye dunaway, homage, julia roberts, nostalgia, steve mcqueen, the thomas crown affair
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Confidently Underselling "THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO:" A READING
My bad! I hijacked the promised “trailer reading” of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO for a disquisition on the temporal quality of trailer reception and the typical “quantity” of trailer consumption. (See my previous post.) In this … Continue reading