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Culture Warrior: Twists, Tricks, and Surprises The twist ending is a difficult thing to perfect. Attempting such an ending runs many risks. For one, if the twist occurs with the natural trajectory of the story, the impact of the twist can be lessened for the spectator if they accurately guess it along the way. Perhaps more commonly, twist endings simply don’t work most of the time – more often than not, they come across as cheap, insincere attempts at making the spectator think they have experienced a more intelligent film than they actually have… By Landon Palmer on February 23, 2010 | View Comments |
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Culture Warrior: A Look Back at the Cinema of 1999 This week’s Culture Warrior is getting its bunker ready for Y2K. By Landon Palmer on January 4, 2010 | View Comments |
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Cinematic Creep Out: Children Edition There is nothing creepier than small children. Except clowns. Oh, crap, what if someone makes a horror film featuring child-clowns? We’d be screwed, but until that frightful day, these are the Ten Creepiest Children in Film. By Adam Sweeney on January 11, 2009 | View Comments |
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Five Reasons Not To See ‘The Happening’ Yesterday Josh Radde reminded us that M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening will be hitting theaters this Friday along with The Incredible Hulk. Josh, who gave you permission to talk about that which we do not speak of? By Brian C. Gibson on June 13, 2008 | View Comments |