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Mental illness in the movies is not often like mental illness in real life.
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When I was four, I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark at the drive-in. My parents figured my older sister (then six) and I would just fall asleep. We didn’t. This may or may not be why I still won’t watch the face-melting bits, but I don’t remember any nightmares. My daughter was perhaps nine […]
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The anime club at my alma mater is called, I kid you not, the Giant Robot Appreciation Society, or GRAS. (Yes, they routinely get people who think the acronym refers to something else. That’s half the joke.) I was not actually a member, though I have several friends who were. What’s more, I was a […]
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So why can some people watch movies all day and others not?
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Belief can only be suspended so far, and the movies must do some of our lifting for us.
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Certain people just do have a knack for phoning it in, don't they?
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Do the movies have any obligation to portray history accurately?
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There are reasons to care about the Oscars, and some of them are even good!
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The Razzies aren't clever, and they aren't even all that aware of film.
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The problem in Hollywood is not that women aren't willing to play characters their own age and never has been.