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PROMETHEUS: Confronting the Creator
James Harleman / June 11, 2012
Taking the familiar backdrop of the ALIEN universe he helped create in 1979 and the themes of creature confronting creator in Blade Runner, director Ridley Scott stylishly revisits these basic human
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FEAR from Alien to Prometheus
James Harleman / June 5, 2012
What do YOU fear? 33 years ago, ALIEN brought about an incredible combination of science fiction and horror that burned through multiple decks of our psyche
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From the Vault: AMADEUS will rock you
James Harleman / May 30, 2012
As we’re preparing a book based on the theory, application, challenges and practice of what we do here with Cinemagogue (hoping to inspire more replication, transformation,
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A CHRONICLE of brokenness…
James Harleman / May 27, 2012
“There’s something wrong with Andrew.” Chronicle (now available on Blu-Ray and DVD) takes the best of found footage films like Cloverfield, the original heart of the quality-sagging
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Legacy and The MUPPETS
James Harleman / May 16, 2012
Muppets’ creator Jim Henson passed away on May 15, 1990 but his legacy lives on. I think a lot of people were initially skeptical when The
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The AVENGERS: Red in Your Ledger
James Harleman / May 14, 2012
“I’ve got red in my ledger; I’d like to wipe it out.” We can’t call our musing about The Avengers‘ narrative themes “fully assembled” without addressing
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The AVENGERS: where we are Loki
James Harleman / May 10, 2012
A friend of mine challenged my assertion that Loki was the best of the Marvel movie villains. As we debated (imagine the verbal equivalent of hammers,
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The AVENGERS: where Loki is wrong!
James Harleman / May 9, 2012
Were we made to be ruled? In our last post, we looked at Loki’s challenging assertion in The Avengers film: the idea that we were born
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The AVENGERS: where Loki is right?
James Harleman / May 8, 2012
"Kneel before me. I said... KNEEL! Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation.