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Public Enemies and the Invention of Video

Paul Snyder | Posted 11.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Public Enemies, Depression, Interrogation, Michael Mann, Violence, Pretty Boy Floyd, Recession, Gangsters, Guns, Christian Bale, John Dillinger, Marion Cotillard, Melvin Purvis, Spectacle, Digital-Film, Baby Face Nelson, Myrna Loy, Johnny Depp, Anachronism, Torture, Independent Films, Entertainment News
Paul Snyder

For all of director Michael Mann's aesthetic sophistication, the film's spontaneity runs roughshod over a lot of true history.

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Watchmen, Love and Misunderstanding

Paul Snyder | Posted 04.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Deconstruction, Bourne Supremacy, Superheroes, Zack Snyder, Alan Moore, Transformers, Watchmen, Mars, Hulk, X-Men, 300, The Dark Knight, Ethics, Violence, Nuclear Weapons, Spectacle, John Higgins, Dave Gibbons, Rorschach, Entertainment News
Paul Snyder

There has been a lot of press about audiences seeing the movie more than once, but that would really only reward aesthetes and those who found the basic plot incomprehensible the first time.

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