glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | july 2018 The Star Wars universe has proven to be a divisive one, splitting the critical and audience reception to near polar opposites, and into this...
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josh hadley | the shadows of pop culture | july 2018 Oxford defines the word “bored" as “feeling weary because one is unoccupied or lacks interest in one's current activity." How in this...
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glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | june 2018 Breaking In Following the loss of her father, a mother of two kids, Shaun, visits her childhood home in order to sell it. That evening a gang...
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glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | may 2018 It's an interesting, though not entirely original, premise for a film. Keep quiet, stay silent, do not make a sound or you will be picked off by a...
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josh hadley | the shadows of pop culture | april 2018 What is the line between artistic integrity and greed? When does it go from earning a living and the cost of doing business to "show me...
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glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | april 2018 CG: An obvious one on the face of it but I'm not anti-CG so much as I am anti the laziness it can instill in a filmmakers art. There's a saying...
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glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | march 2018 Let's get a few cards down on the table to start with. Black Panther isn't, as some apparently seem to think, the first black superhero or the...
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justin eagle gauthier | yl voice | feb. 2018 On a random summer afternoon during the mid-1950s, in a shack in the backwoods of North Carolina, a young Shawnee man stabs a screwdriver through...
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josh hadley | the shadows of pop culture | feb. 2018 I have somewhat of a reputation for not liking newer films and 2017 did nothing to dissuade anyone of this. In fact, my disillusionment with...
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glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | feb. 2018 We've been witness over the last three decades to a shift in the face of film art and the franchising of films has, in particular, changed the...
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josh hadley | the shadows of pop culture | jan. 2018 Mr. Lobo and “Cinema Insomnia" might not be household names in terms of oddball programming but that may be changing. While we had...
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glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | jan. 2018 Editor's Note: This review contains no major spoilers. It's been increasingly hard to get excited about most of the films that make up the...
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larry p. madden | yl voice | dec. 2017 Choctaw folklorist, writer and speaker Tim Tingle is a true storyteller in the Indian tradition. Tingle has told a version of the “No Name” story to...
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glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | dec. 2017 Welcome to the second annual Naughty and Nice awards, the illustrious and 'So cult it's almost unheard of' celebration of the best and worst of...
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josh hadley | the shadows of pop culture | nov. 2017 Two-hundred and forty scan lines by 320 scan lines of resolution was all that was needed to cause a revolution in not just video but in...
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justin eagle gauthier | yl voice | nov. 2017 A haunting poem is read behind the imagery of a bloodied young woman running barefoot and underdressed through the snow. She looks back and the...
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glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | nov. 2017 As a critic I've lambasted many a movie for making no sense. Those moments when stuff just happens to serve the plot without explanation or reason...
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larry p. madden | yl voice | oct. 2017 I like highbrow stories as much as the next guy, but there's always room on my pallet for a good laugh. The marketing of some films makes it puzzling as...
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josh hadley | the shadows of pop culture | oct. 2017 If you grew up in the Green Bay area at all in the 1980s or the 1990s then you most likely spent your Saturday late nights with one Ned the...
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glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | oct. 2017 As everyone tucks into a Halloween feast, I remind you that in horror film dinnertime is not quite so ... wholesome. Given the occasion, and my...
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glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | july 2018 The Star Wars universe has proven to be a divisive one, splitting the critical and audience reception to near polar opposites, and into this...
Screen - Reviews, Features
josh hadley | the shadows of pop culture | july 2018 Oxford defines the word “bored" as “feeling weary because one is unoccupied or lacks interest in one's current activity." How in this...
Screen - Features Art - Features
glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | june 2018 Breaking In Following the loss of her father, a mother of two kids, Shaun, visits her childhood home in order to sell it. That evening a gang...
Screen - Reviews, Features
glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | may 2018 It's an interesting, though not entirely original, premise for a film. Keep quiet, stay silent, do not make a sound or you will be picked off by a...
Screen - Reviews, Features
josh hadley | the shadows of pop culture | april 2018 What is the line between artistic integrity and greed? When does it go from earning a living and the cost of doing business to "show me...
Screen - Features
glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | april 2018 CG: An obvious one on the face of it but I'm not anti-CG so much as I am anti the laziness it can instill in a filmmakers art. There's a saying...
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glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | march 2018 Let's get a few cards down on the table to start with. Black Panther isn't, as some apparently seem to think, the first black superhero or the...
Screen - Reviews, Features
justin eagle gauthier | yl voice | feb. 2018 On a random summer afternoon during the mid-1950s, in a shack in the backwoods of North Carolina, a young Shawnee man stabs a screwdriver through...
Screen - Reviews, Features
josh hadley | the shadows of pop culture | feb. 2018 I have somewhat of a reputation for not liking newer films and 2017 did nothing to dissuade anyone of this. In fact, my disillusionment with...
Screen - Features
glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | feb. 2018 We've been witness over the last three decades to a shift in the face of film art and the franchising of films has, in particular, changed the...
Screen - Features
josh hadley | the shadows of pop culture | jan. 2018 Mr. Lobo and “Cinema Insomnia" might not be household names in terms of oddball programming but that may be changing. While we had...
Screen - Features
glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | jan. 2018 Editor's Note: This review contains no major spoilers. It's been increasingly hard to get excited about most of the films that make up the...
Screen - Reviews, Features
larry p. madden | yl voice | dec. 2017 Choctaw folklorist, writer and speaker Tim Tingle is a true storyteller in the Indian tradition. Tingle has told a version of the “No Name” story to...
Screen - Reviews, Features
glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | dec. 2017 Welcome to the second annual Naughty and Nice awards, the illustrious and 'So cult it's almost unheard of' celebration of the best and worst of...
Screen - Reviews, Features
josh hadley | the shadows of pop culture | nov. 2017 Two-hundred and forty scan lines by 320 scan lines of resolution was all that was needed to cause a revolution in not just video but in...
Screen - Features
justin eagle gauthier | yl voice | nov. 2017 A haunting poem is read behind the imagery of a bloodied young woman running barefoot and underdressed through the snow. She looks back and the...
Screen - Reviews, Features
glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | nov. 2017 As a critic I've lambasted many a movie for making no sense. Those moments when stuff just happens to serve the plot without explanation or reason...
Screen - Features
larry p. madden | yl voice | oct. 2017 I like highbrow stories as much as the next guy, but there's always room on my pallet for a good laugh. The marketing of some films makes it puzzling as...
Screen - Reviews, Features
josh hadley | the shadows of pop culture | oct. 2017 If you grew up in the Green Bay area at all in the 1980s or the 1990s then you most likely spent your Saturday late nights with one Ned the...
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glenn criddle | cynical celluloid | oct. 2017 As everyone tucks into a Halloween feast, I remind you that in horror film dinnertime is not quite so ... wholesome. Given the occasion, and my...
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