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Joss, Get Over Indexicality

Now, I love Joss Whedon and will honestly read/watch/listen to anything he makes. ANYTHING. But I have a problem with how obsessed he is with the specific actors that he chose to play his characters. The recent fan-driven discussion around bringing back Firefly indicates how specific the actors are to the characters: Step 2: Cancel [...]

0 Comments. Posted by on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 9:45 pm.

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Philip Glass on Disney

I hate to admit that I’d never heard of Peter Stephan Jungk’s book Perfect American before I read the about Philip Glass doing a stage production of the book. Michael Barrier has some real issues with the book, but it seems like it’d be an interesting read to get an idea of the popular myths [...]

0 Comments. Posted by on Monday, May 7, 2012 at 8:30 pm.

Filed under animation, animation studies, film studies.

My Favourite Movie of 2010: Summer Wars

Sadly, the VLC app on the iPad choked on the 720p video of Mamoru Hosoda’s Summer Wars that I managed to find. But that just meant that I had to watch the movie on a laptop like Jobs intended. However, this hiccup didn’t take away from the resounding amount of pleasure that I took from [...]

1 Comment. Posted by on Monday, January 3, 2011 at 1:42 pm.

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Up Close With Scott Pilgrim

My Mom got an iPad for her birthday back in November and this Christmas eve was the first time I really got a chance to spend hours with the device and really give it a once over. I was eager to try the keyboard for longer writing tasks (like this post) and see what else [...]

0 Comments. Posted by on Saturday, December 25, 2010 at 4:20 pm.

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