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Friday (neo)Noir: ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit ?’ is charged with being wildly imaginative and unique

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Written by Jeffrey Price and Peter Semen Directed by Robert Zemeckis U.S.A., 1988 Visual effects have come a long way since the 1920s when pioneering directors the likes of Carl Theodor Dreyer and Jean Renoir, amongst many other notable filmmakers, attempted to marry real life actors and sets with added optical …

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Looking at Dinosaurs: ‘Jurassic Park’ and Its Powerful Hold on a Generation

Jurassic Park, like many of Spielberg’s best films, allows us to be children again, even if this is, ironically, a film most kids would be scared to death by. It’s a movie that indulges in horror-movie tropes while making them feel fresh, layering a patina of intelligence over the intense, earth-rattling action. Though the human-dinosaur face-offs are the stuff of movie legend, the early sections where Drs. Alan Grant, Ian Malcolm, and Ellie Sattler debate the ethics of a theme park full of the living, breathing extinct are strangely fascinating and entertaining, at least to 28-year old me.

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‘Cool World’ doesn’t explore sex in cartoons but rather sex with them

Cool World Written by Michael Grais, Mark Victor Directed by Ralph Bakshi USA, 1992 Cool World is a fabulously fascinating failure of a feature film.  Say that three times fast.  There’s no beating around the bush, Cool World was a mature, perhaps even perverted, attempt at capitalizing on the eroticism of the character Jessica Rabbit …

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