The Film Cult The cult is an incendiary phenomenon, often fueled by equal parts devotion and absurdity. Let’s take for example the Star Trek fan production, whose progeny have populated the internet these past few years. These webisodes rushed in to fill the vacuum left by the cancellation of the last regular Star Trek series, [...]
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Sarah Palin: The Movie (Originally filed on September 16, 2008) “It’s like a really bad Disney movie. The hockey mom, you know, I’m just a hockey mom from Alaska and she’s the President and it’s like she’s facing down Vladimir Putin and using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It’s absurd, it’s [...]
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Virtual JFK | Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived This somber documentary posits a fascinating historic impossibility in its title. What would our world have looked like if Kennedy had somehow cheated death and lived to run for another term in office? However, the film actually spends scant time exploring that supposition. Most of Mr. Masutani’s [...]
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