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    2019 Oscar Predictions – The Cinematic Schematic #11

    February 20, 2019
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    It’s time to get out your sample 2019 Oscar ballot and start making prediction notes for this Sunday night’s big show! Fortunately, we’ve got just the nominee breakdown you need to put together a winning list on the latest episode of The Cinematic Schematic.

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    Sound Trek: 2019 Best Original Score Oscar Nominee Special

    February 18, 2019
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    While we continue our month looking at stop-motion films, we can’t help but stop and take a closer look at the tumultuous and oftentimes controversial 2019 Oscars. In part one of our two-part The Cinematic Schematic 2019 Oscar special, Sound…

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    Brick by Brick: The Lego Movie 2 Champions Growth through Reconciliation

    February 14, 2019
    Chris Pratt stars as Emmet in the Lego Movie 2

    Just as Lego can be the means to build something extraordinary, so too can the toys be shattered in an instance. A fitting analogy for the height of joy and the destructive depths of spite. They are…

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    The LEGO Movie Playfully Deconstructs Dystopia

    February 8, 2019
    Phil Lord and Chris Miller's The Lego Movie featuring Chris Pratt and Elizabeth Banks

    There are few punchlines with the same bite as an authoritarian dystopia. It’s effectiveness grows tenfold when you mix in Batman.

    One of the most effective ways to disengage the very real notions of a society devoid of any agency is to laugh…

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    A Month Celebrating the Acheivement of Stop-Motion Film

    February 4, 2019
    Stop-Motion

    We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

    Nick Park

    One moment of Ovid’s

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    M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable Career – The Cinematic Schematic #10

    January 31, 2019
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    Happy New Year listeners! In this month’s edition of The Cinematic Schematic examining M. Night Shyamalan’s career, Daniel Bokemper joins me to review the highly anticipated follow up Unbreakable and its backdoor sequel, Split, Glass.

    All January long, we’ve been reflecting on Shyamalan’s…

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    The Visit Explores Separation and Forgiveness

    January 30, 2019
    The least unassuming grandparents of The Visit from M. Night Shyamalan

    Society often views anger as an unacceptable emotion, and people often process it as something else — depression, apprehension, self-loathing. Experiences that result in anger also dilute the desire to try something new, particularly relationships. M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit shows from the first person perspective two…

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    Unbreakable and Split Examine Shyamalan’s Fascination with the Tangibility of Myth

    January 17, 2019
    Bruce Willis and James McAvoy in iconic moments from Unbreakable and Split by M. Night Shyamalan

    This part won’t be like a comic book. Real life doesn’t fit into little boxes that were drawn for it.

    Elijah Price, Unbreakable

    In 2002, Sam Raimi made the superhero blockbuster feasible; in 2008,…

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    The Village Dissects the Consequence of Evasive Belief

    January 16, 2019
    Bryce Dallas Howard as Ivy in M. Night Shyamalan's The Village

    You may run from sorrow, as we have. Sorrow will find you.

    August Nicholson

    In the wake of the…

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    Sound Trek Composer Spotlight: Dankmus

    January 15, 2019
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    Guest: Wade “Dankmus” Nixon

    Youtube Video Composer

    Follow Dankmus on Twitter @dankmus

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