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Monthly Archives: February 2016

My Favorite Movies: Superman

February 26, 2016by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

The film’s marketing tagline — “You’ll believe a man can fly” — and first four words of dialogue — “This is no fantasy” — make the interpretive approach to 1978’s Superman […]

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Double Feature:

February 19, 2016by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

They make careers out of fooling audiences, but when all is said and done, they’ve only fooled themselves. Movies that are in some fashion about movies are practically as old as […]

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Batman/Superman Serials: Tumblr Reviews

February 12, 2016by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

The two archetypal superheroes made their cinematic debuts in quick bursts of action to be played in front of the movies people came to see. These serials took fifteen weeks […]

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Both Versions: Godzilla

February 5, 2016by Paul Boyne 1 Comment

There are reasons not to take Godzilla seriously. They hardly require enumerating. Foremost among them is ubiquity. This is a figure with more screen appearances than James Bond and an […]

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