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    A Month Celebrating Cinema’s Greatest Super-Heroines

    March 4, 2019
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    In Hollywood, there is one dominant voice. It is a white, male, straight gaze. When I talk about positive portrayals of black people and women, I’m saying complexity. I’m not saying goody-two-shoes, everything’s okay. No. The positive view of me is to see me as I…

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    Kubo and the Two Strings Illuminates the Power of Stop-Motion Storytelling

    February 27, 2019
    Beetle monkey and Kubo in Kubo and the Two Strings from Laika.

    If you must blink, do it now. Pay careful attention to everything you see, no matter how unusual it may seem. If you look away, even for an instant, then our hero will surely perish. It’s time to follow my own path. My name is…

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    Kyle William Roberts Talks the Evolution of His Stop-motion Dreams

    February 26, 2019
    Kyle William Roberts alongside the work of Ray Harryhausen and Fantastic Mr. Fox

    Kyle William Roberts is the director of The Posthuman Project, The Grave, and the mind behind Reckless Abandonment…

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    A Brief History of Stop-Motion Animation

    February 21, 2019
    A selection of stop-motion films including King Kong, Jason and the Argonauts, Isle of Dogs, and The Nightmare Before Christmas

    Stop-motion animation has been around nearly as long as the art of filmmaking itself, and its techniques have continued to evolve from its humble beginnings up to the present day. 

    What follows is not a comprehensive history of the art form, but rather a…

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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
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    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.

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    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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