Posts Tagged ‘Dazed and Confused’
Film Review – Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood 
Writer/director Richard Linklater’s entire career has been marked by his obsession with the passing of time and how it feeds into our nostalgia. Whether it be nostalgia for high school (Dazed and Confused, 1993), college (Everybody Wants Some!!, 2016), romance (The Before Trilogy) or childhood itself…
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Film Review – Mid90s
Jonah Hill’s feature length debut as writer and director – Mid90s (2018) – has a great affection for the timeframe it’s set in. As the title suggests, Hill takes us back to Los Angeles in the middle of the 1990s, amongst the youth that spends…
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Film Review – Last Flag Flying
One of Richard Linklater’s greatest strengths, as both a writer and a director, is revealing deeper truths about his characters through their interactions with one another. It’s one thing to film people talking, it’s another to do it and make it feel alive, thought provoking,…
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Film Review – Everybody Wants Some
If you read the movie trades like a respectable and not at all nerdy human being, you’ve probably heard director Richard Linklater describe his newest film, Everybody Wants Some, as a “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused and rejoiced in your not at all dimly…
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SIFF Film Review – Computer Chess
On paper, the new film Computer Chess sounds like a fun and intriguing trip through exploring the early days of computer programming. Set during the early 1980s when dot matrix printers spewed out long trails of sheets covered in arcane Fortran code, the idea of…
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An Analysis – The Best Summertime Movies
I have always been the type of person who requires many conditions to enjoy my media. For example, when discovering that a certain kind of music sounds a lot better when heartbroken, I will specifically wait to break out certain CDs until the day I…
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Episode 140 – Richard Linklater
In honor of the release of Bernie, Spencer and Greg look back on Richard Linklater’s career.
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Top 5 – Party Scenes
Another Top 5 segment from The MacGuffin. This time Brandi and Ben share their top 5 party scenes. This segment is also available on Stitcher, iTunes and from here. After you’ve watched the video please vote in our poll and share which one you think…
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