My Top 8 Films of 2006 (w/ 'An Encouraging Trend' & 'Escapism For The Masses? I Wish')

I caught 45 of the 494 films that were released in 2006 (going by US release dates) and found that while overall this was another disappointing year of cinematic output

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Behind PMC's Banner: Multiple Personalities Proliferate in 'The Island'

When innocent young Jordan, who has been brought up in a totalitarian society made up of other clones of the privileged few who can afford to keep them held against

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David Fincher Sets Trends and Breaks Records

Technically speaking, David Fincher did not shoot Zodiac- he 'lensed' the film, keeping the footage directly within the (Viper) camera until he was ready to upload it to his home

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How Interdisciplinary Will We Get in the New Year? (Part I)

While I'm far from happy with the way interdisciplinary approaches are still seen as unusual contributions to academia, it's nice to know there is discourse on the subject. I predict

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Getting Funky w/ Anonymous Content

What do David Fincher (Se7en, The Game, Fight Club, Panic Room), Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation), Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the

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Mysterious Turns

Mysterious Turns by Epiphanie Bloom Meanwhile events keep churning, Blinding me, and overturning the sense of serenity that I never arguably had, and casting me further into irreverence instead. Poetic

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Jarhead Film Review

A grim yet poetic ode to the gaps and silences around which people create identities for themselves under considerable stress, this movie is a dynamic adaptation of real life ex-marine

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Upon 'Rendition': Things Aren't What They Seem Here

Do you think that abducting terror suspects from the street, clandestinely flying them to developing countries such as Jordan, Egypt or Morocco, where they are subject to torture tactics in

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Alluring Incongruity (Short Story)

The curtains are half-drawn, and through them peeks a room of an alluring incongruity. It is immediately evident that we are in an art gallery through the collection of artworks

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A Poetic Deconstruction of 'M'eaning

Meaning. It’s good for you! Meaning. Replenishes you. Meaning is the answer, meaning is the key Meaning is the view I get when I want to see or bypass me

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