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A Brief History of Slip and Failure: Cyberpunk and the Headroom for Nostalgia in Back to the Future

January 18, 2021

In refusing to be neither something different nor more of the same, Back to the Future II’s re-filming technique within the original via new VistaGlide technology offered – rather –[…]

DVD & Blu-ray · Reviews

Blank Like a Panther: Cat People (1982) blu-ray review

January 27, 2014

“Even if Schrader would like to completely eliminate any ‘magic’ or dream-into-reality bleeding, it’s still there – the boundaries of his material threaten to swamp him at every turn, so kudos to him for at least not running in fear back behind the phallic bars of patriarchal condescension that was such an annoyance in the original. “

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