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Delimited Liminality: [Book Review] The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010. Book Review] The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. Is so much fun to read that it's hard to blame him for that. It's an engaging style in which to tell tales of characters who are leading interesting lives, both in a biographical sense and in that of the traditional Chinese curse. By keeping the pacing brisk and giving its characters a lot to do, The Diamond Age. August 5, 2010 at 8:13 PM. I guess theres some serious gender politics in them? Sergio Leone and t...
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Delimited Liminality: [Film Review] Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010. Film Review] Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Two of the guys from my boardgaming group and I were talking about Riki-Oh. And how the plots of those movies are really just excuses for their protagonists to fight a bunch of differently-gimmicked opponents, yet manage to be kind of mystifying at the same time. As one of my pals put it, there's no real plot to speak of, but there are a stultifying number of events. Rather than Thrill Kill. Came out and was greeted by rapturous reviews ...
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Delimited Liminality: June 2010
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Sunday, June 20, 2010. A lot of the reason I found it hard to engage with Dollhouse. Was that so much of it felt like a retread of Whedon's other television work. The dialogue mostly maintains Whedon's slightly too clever but still funny/insightful modality, though it's definitely played down here from the heights it reached in Buffy. The first half-dozen episodes are heavily episodic and play out like an updated Quantum Leap. Though, the tech is. S part that it presents the salacious without any follow-...
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Delimited Liminality: August 2010
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010. Film Review] Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Two of the guys from my boardgaming group and I were talking about Riki-Oh. And how the plots of those movies are really just excuses for their protagonists to fight a bunch of differently-gimmicked opponents, yet manage to be kind of mystifying at the same time. As one of my pals put it, there's no real plot to speak of, but there are a stultifying number of events. Rather than Thrill Kill. Came out and was greeted by rapturous reviews ...
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Delimited Liminality: [Film Review] Spartan
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010. That's not to say that it's all brush passes, cut-outs and false flag ops at the expense of any action sequences. There are action scenes, very well-crafted, which punctuate the more talky and political intriguey plot arcs with just the right amount of frequency. These aren't the extended setpieces of a Bourne. The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. Updated for an era even less sure of the rightness of its own causes. September 2, 2010 at 5:37 PM. September 3, 2010 at 7:34 AM.
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Delimited Liminality: [Film Review] Up
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Monday, August 9, 2010. Is the emotional equivalent of that experience. It's a bizarre but intriguing sensation to watch one's emotions be manipulated, and see it happening and understand how it's being done, and yet still be overwhelmed by that tidal pull. Note: Since this review went live, I have been informed by people who work in the animation industry that these speculations are, in fact, entirely wrong. Standard Pixar practice is to record the voice acting before work begins on the animation. Thats...
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Delimited Liminality: September 2010
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Monday, September 13, 2010. Film Review] The Brood. Or, David Cronenberg Presents: MurderBabies. Answers, is also emblematic of Cronenberg's work, in which conflicts which may initially appear to be resolved are shown to be fractal in nature, whose resolutions are elusive at best. A special note needs to be made about the trailer for the film, which is amazingly hyperbolic. As noted previously, there wasn't really anything scary so much as thought-provoking about The Brood. Friday, September 3, 2010.
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Delimited Liminality: [Animation "Review"] Monstrous Wildlife
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Monday, August 9, 2010. Animation "Review"] Monstrous Wildlife. I don't normally review shorts, mainly because I don't know how to - they generally don't have enough going on for me to wax pseudo-intellectual about, and it should be clear by now that I got into this here reviewing game for the opportunities for chin-strokage. I'll make an exception for "Monstrous Wildlife," because it's beautiful and made me laugh out loud and has a fun soundtrack and makes me want to watch Tremors. Breakfast In The Ruins.
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Delimited Liminality: July 2010
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Monday, July 19, 2010. Film Review] The House of the Devil. Somewhere during the conception of. The House of the Devil. I don't want to scrutinize too closely here, since House. Definitely deserves a close reading analysis in the future, but the shift that happens so subtly is that the film moves from a strict focus on mise en scene. Uses that framing as a way to create a psychological negative space that's much more effective than any number of jump scares. House of the Devil. Wednesday, July 14, 2010.
