sepinwall.blogspot.com - 10/27/2009
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Particularly long spoilers for tonight's "Mad Men" coming up just as soon as I alphabetize the secretaries... "Open this drawer." -Betty Damn. Damn. Damn damn damn damn damn damn damn. Damn. Back in the days before comic book fanboys got a little too obsessed with their favorite titles ...
wednesdayshaul.com - 11/3/2009
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wednesdayshaul.com —
It’s odd watching a reproduction of a 1963
black & white television broadcast on a big LCD...
High Def television in stereo surround sound. We’ve come to expect television to perfectly mimic the appearance life. Things like misadjusted vertical holds and bad tuners are ...
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The assassination of Don Draper– thoughts on Mad ...
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Mad Men and Halloween– the masks are off
Wednesdays Haul —
... At the end, as he’s out Trick or Treating with his kids, a neighbor jokingly asks Don “who are you supposed to be?” That’s the question now, isn’t it? Who is Don Draper? Who is Dick Whitman? Who’s this new man, now that he’s been exposed to Betsy? Alan Sepinwall and ...
When Things Go Bump in the Night.
Ghost in the Machine —
... Saw-style serial killer torture porn, which is a tired, boring, and lazy subgenre at this point. And I admired the film's narrative economy and inventiveness -- With nothing much happening most of the time, Paranormal Activity has we, the audience, doing almost all of the heavy lifting for it by sitting around, waiting for the other shoe to drop, and scaring ourselves. Paranormal Activity is basically Hitchcock's ticking-time-bomb (or, to take a more recent application of the principle, ...
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