"All I want is the answer to one simple question before I run screaming back to the bughouse. Is this real or isn't it?" Cliff Steele, DOOM PATROL #21.
Martyn Pedler
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Posts by Martyn
The Golden Age of Cinema
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011Tags: format, history, nostalgia, optimism, television, vhs
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Morgan Spurlock on The American Way
Monday, October 24th, 2011Tags: branding, interviews, jmag, meta, shameless self-promotion
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To Look Like Superman
Sunday, October 9th, 2011Tags: adaptation, horror, meta, superman, surgery, unreality
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Outtakes: Matt Fraction
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011Tags: bookslut, casanova, interviews, iron man, matt fraction, speed
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- I'm the comic book columnist for Bookslut, the film critic for Triple J Magazine, and mid-Ph.D. on superhero stories. Here's where I write about all kinds of popular culture.
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- Do entertaining stories make us more ethical? Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker: http://t.co/bEXueJDh 50 mins ago
- A 1998 wordfight between Stephen Sondheim and William Safire: http://t.co/GBeQB4oE 11 hrs ago
- "Placing the tragedy of King Lear at one end of a cultural narrative and JCVD at the other..." http://t.co/yMT44m8E via @mattzollerseitz 13 hrs ago
- I now hear "It's just common sense" as "no, I haven't thought about it at all, why do you ask?" 15 hrs ago
- June 20, I'll be chairing a panel of experts discussing all things 'flesh' for @ACCA_melbourne. Free, too. Come along! http://t.co/rUCVfyLK 19 hrs ago
- I don't understand the legal quagmire surrounding Kenneth Lonergan's MARGARET, but the movie itself is great: insightful, engaging, painful. 19 hrs ago
- Legendary SIMPSONS writer John Swartzwelder has self-published eight novels? http://t.co/twM5PUs6 via @pageturner 1 day ago
- According to this? Pretty much every movie will. 'How to Tell From a Trailer That a Movie Is Going to Suck': http://t.co/Up0Fi2Do 1 day ago
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