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Daedalus Howell thinks about the movies.

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Shit, I Missed Banned Books Week

Despite all of the press releases, despite all the bookstore banners, and despite the groundswell of media attention, I managed to miss Banned Books Week. Last week! Perhaps I was blinded by its ubiquity — I couldn’t see the forest for the trees (before it was pulped into paperbacks). Or...
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Notes from the Set of a Werewolf Film

When news editor Will Carruthers offhandedly suggested I write a dispatch from the set, he had no idea I had been keeping a production...
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Moonshot: Why I’m Making a Werewolf Movie

It all began in a community college course circa 1993 when Herman Hesse’s Steppenwolf met my contrarian attitude toward required reading. I ached through a few chapters...
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Automat Documentary Serves Up Lost History

There was a time when, for the price of a nickel, diners could participate in a uniquely American food phenom. The Automat anticipated both the...
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DVDs Are Flat Circles: Streamers Killed the Video Store

Since the late ’80s, San Rafael’s Bedrock Music and Video is very likely the place where a generation of Marinites bought their first CDs,...
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‘Graphic Blandishment’ Explained, Sort Of

This time of year many Gen X parents are making nostalgia-driven searches for A Charlie Brown Christmas, the animated special from 1965 that set...
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Cine-meh: Small-screen Blues

TV is not really TV anymore. It’s more like a video jukebox fed by the internet. It’s also one of the few remaining platforms...
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True Stories: Weekly World News Starts Studio

As the saying goes, “If you remember the ’90s, you were there and bored.” That’s unless you were a reader of an inky supermarket tabloid that...
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How to Write Your Pandemic Movie

Fresh from my gig as the editor of the North Bay Bohemian, here's a bit from my Press Pass column for screenwriters and those...
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Cinema Purgatorio: When Should Movie Theaters Reopen? Maybe Never.

Netflix fatigue. It's practically a pandemic itself. The remedy? A shot of real-life cinema — square in the eye — coming soon to a...
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Happy 100, Pauline Kael

Today marks the centenary of film critic Pauline Kael’s birth. Beside recreating film criticism in her New Yorker column and giving shape to our...
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On Anthony Burgess and Inspiration: The Me in The Metropolis Movie

Artists can absorb influences so deeply, it can be renewing — if not startling — when we discover traces of them in our later,...
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