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Bruce Campbell, Man with the Screaming Brain

Bruce Campbell’s directorial debut is a very entertaining film, but it also says a lot about the concept of cult films. Campbell’s film is aimed squarely at the fans of silly B-movies, more in the vein of Bubba-Hotep than Evil Dead though there is a clear over-lap. It is also completely dependent upon Campbell’s star [...]

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Jeff Smith, Bone

Jeff Smith’s comicbook Bone is a unique achievement and a strange genre mix; on the one hand it resembles the naive, innocent fun of early comic strips, while on the other hand it is an epic fantasy tale. The achievement lies in creating a successful blend of these two seemingly disparate genres.

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Garth Jennings, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

The adaptation of Douglas Adams’ cult novels, it has a very difficult legacy to live up to and in many ways is trying to do perform an impossible task. Adams’ humor is not easily translatable, depending mostly on strange coherences and sidetracking bits. To its credit, the film does try to keep the spirit of [...]

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