You Are Not So Smart -
Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
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Monday, 9 December 2024
quote [ Listen to the Show on all Podcast Apps "Really? no, Really?" https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-really-no-really-107027693/Today?s episode could be titled, ... ]
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Wednesday, 27 November 2024
quote [ In my first ever journal article, I listed the tropes that all gladiator story arcs seem to have in common. For funsies (and vindication) I've made a ticklist to see if Ridley followed the same formula as dozens of screen gladiators that went before, or did something breathtakingly original. ]
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Tuesday, 29 October 2024
quote [ ?With most studios, we can book new and classic films, but Disney has the weirdest rules,? he says. ?For the year, you can either show first-run stuff or you can show repertory, but you can?t do both. So in 2024, for the first time, we decided to go with Disney repertory.? Which means that Screenland can show The Lion King (1994) anytime this year, but not Mufasa: The Lion King in its initial run. ]
Bit too long for my liking, but interesting interviews on film programming and rediscovering audiences for, quoting: ?the good shit?.
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Thursday, 10 October 2024
quote [ Ten years after Silicon Valley remade TV, it?s become clear how the streaming revolution distorted our collective viewing habits ? and sense of the culture. ]
If you applied the logic of the media business to Netflix, it looked uncertain, but Netflix was operating by tech-sector rules ? spending boatloads of cash to acquire customers, changing their habits and overwhelming competitors until, at the other end, an entire industry was transformed.
And that is exactly what Netflix did.
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Saturday, 5 October 2024
quote [ The threat of toxic fandoms ? from Star Wars and Lord of the Rings to Bridgerton and Game of Thrones ? has become an intractable headache for almost every studio. ]
With your toxic fandom acting like a bunch of douchebags
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Non-Violent Resistance -
The philosophy of Satyagraha, holding on to The Truth
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Wednesday, 25 September 2024
quote [ I hope you all read my impassioned plea, and start searching garage sales, junk shops and eBay for some of the last remaining functional LaserDisc players.
[?] The glue used to bind LaserDiscs is breaking down, but they can?t disappear. Disney and James Bond and whoever else can try to pretend that a movie didn?t feature outrageously large mermaid breasts or outright misogyny, but the LaserDisc is a witness. ] As if you wouldn't know. Interesting archivist's stance though. From last year.
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Tuesday, 3 September 2024
quote [ An institution of horror movies, this iconic character has evolved along with our views on science itself. ]
You're a mad scientist and I'm breaking out the lab
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Sunday, 25 August 2024
quote [ The Friday night death slot, and why Fridays carry such a hard-to-shake reputation as a place where good broadcast television goes to die. ]
Friday night, whoaaoh Friday night
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Monday, 5 August 2024
quote [ all artists have the historical knowledge that helps them avoid mistakes of the past like Rocky IV. But this result â?? a lack of embarrassing relics â?? is what makes us feel that culture is less healthy. ]
Just realized this blog appeared in my bookmarks several times but the text is indeed pretty clever.
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