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The Horror of Metaphor in It Follows

March 23, 2015 by Jason Fabeck 1 Comment

itfollowsHorror in Society

Horror movies tend to deal with society through easy to follow metaphors. Jason’s mommy issues, Michael Myers’ rage due to abuse and neglect, Freddy Krueger being a child of rape. The point being that sometimes the driving force, the literal ‘horror’, behind these films isn’t the mostly male killers lashing out but a trauma held only within the mind of our protagonist.

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Posted in: Films Tagged: abuse, film, horror, metaphors

Netflix is My Girlfriend

March 18, 2015 by Jason Fabeck Leave a Comment
Hey there, lover

Hey there, lover

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Posted in: the Internet Tagged: advice, film, job, Netflix, sexbox, Television, writing

Our Month in Pop Culture – June 2014

June 2, 2014 by Alex Bean Leave a Comment

Sometimes we at The Addison Recorder just need to talk about whatever pop culture ephemera occupies our time. So we are starting a monthly column for just that. It will be a bit shorter — just a paragraph or two from whichever Recorder voice wants to join in — and will hopefully provide a spark for comments from any readers who connect with whatever we are reading/watching/listening to/playing.

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Posted in: Round-Ups Tagged: books, Cheryl Strayed, David Foster Wallace, film, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Girl Rising, Infinite Jest, Louis CK, Love in the Time of Cholera, Oppressed Majority, pop culture, Wild

Another Christmas Trailer: Les Miserables

June 22, 2012 by Andrew Rostan Leave a Comment

This article was suggested by a sentence in a previous essay by Mr. Alex Bean.

I’m the type of film lover who pays more attention to directors and writers than movie stars, and in the years since my return to the Midwest, one director who has gotten a prominent place on my watching list is Tom Hooper. Hooper has a unique set of artistic strengths, and more importantly, he makes terrific work. John Adams is one of the greatest television productions I’ve ever seen, and The King’s Speech is a type of film I love discovering: smart, witty, and full of emotion without ever feeling manipulative.

But though his work is in the first rank of quality, Hooper himself is a more dubious figure on my critical scale. It still rankles that he won the Best Director Oscar for 2010 over David Fincher and the Coen Brothers. Hooper’s filmmaking style is unimaginative, stagey, and technically dull. However, Hooper’s main goal in his films, I am convinced, is to let the actors take over. In his films and shows, every line of dialogue, every gesture, even every spot within the scene where a player stands, feels upon analysis to be as thought out and practiced as possible. I say “upon analysis” because in the immediate experience of watching, the actors are so confident and so dedicated as to mesmerize. Watch Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney in John Adams, Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush in The King’s Speech, and you basically get an acting-for-the-screen clinic.

And to think they’d made “The Nanny Diaries” just a year before.

Which is why Hooper may have been the best choice to direct the long-gestating film version of Les Miserables, a film primed and ready for the Oscar season along with Mr. Bean’s choices Django Unchained and The Great Gatsby.

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