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• Steve Erickson:

  In the culture at large, the war over science fiction's creative validity has been long since won,

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  I don't know for a fact, but I feel fairly certain that the first person who described a movie as '

• Steve Erickson:

  That godfather of the modern action blockbuster, 'The Godfather,' is entirely character driven, pro

• Steve Erickson:

  The instant that movies became described as character driven was the instant when characters stoppe

• Steve Erickson:

  You can't blame movies for embracing spectacle; filmmakers since D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mill

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  Created by writer Beau Willimon, who's worked on several political campaigns, 'House of Cards' cann

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  If Marxist theory dictates that the personal is always political, the rebuttal of both 'The America

• Steve Erickson:

  All of Wes Anderson's films are confections, memoirs created in cinematic snow globes, with the sub

• Steve Erickson:

  Julianne Moore and Michael Keaton began in 1980s soap operas and 1970s sitcoms, respectively, such

• Steve Erickson:

  Can anything be less cool than defending the motion picture academy?