Posts by Stephanie Rose
The Popfilter 2014 Fall TV Challenge
ROUND 2 SCORPION VS GOTHAM Follow the bracket at http://challonge.com/popfilter Sometimes is very difficult to weigh the merit of one show against another. Comparing two shows, what each show did wrong, what each did right and declaring one better than the other can be challenging. Sometimes it’s hard to choose a winner. This, however, is…
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HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER VS BLACK-ISH See the bracket at challonge.com/popfilter Today’s installment of the Fall TV challenge pits two ABC shows against one another. Black-ish is kind of a modern Jeffersons. It’s a 30 minute family comedy in the vein of Modern Family. It stars Anthony Anderson as the father who…
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Round One FOREVER VS SCORPION You can see the bracket at challonge.com/popfilter Here’s the debate about television: instead of it being this art form that is presented to an audience for sheer entertainment value, it is actually a mirror held up to the general public that reflects our mores and values–who we are as…
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Round One RED BAND SOCIETY VS TIM AND ERIC’S BEDTIME STORIES SEE THE BRACKET AT challonge.com/popfilter Comparing Red Band Society and Tim and Eric’s Bedtime Stories is like comparing apples and orangutans. Tim and Eric’s Bedtime Stories is a 15-minute comedy on Adult Swim from two alt comedy darlings, and Red Band Society is a…
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Where Stephanie reviews a film from ‘Notmeria India’s The Lunchbox One of the most fascinating things about foreign films is that they let a viewer see how people in other places go about their daily routines. In India, office building and other workplaces do not have microwaves and refrigerators, so people don’t bring lunches…
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Greece’s Dogtooth A few years ago, an art exhibit in Brooklyn featured painting of a black Virgin Mary splattered with elephant feces. Not surprisingly, this got people talking. Soon enough there was a nationwide debate about what art is suppose to be and, since the exhibit received government money, whether the taxpayers should subsidize “offensive†art.…
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In which Stephanie Reviews a Film from Notmerica Denmark’s The Celebration or “How to Clean Skeletons out of the Family Closet” A few years ago, there emerged a movement in Denmark, called dogme 95, that tried to deconstruct films in order to tell stories that were raw and free from all the expensive bells…
Read MoreA Word on Robin Williams
On August 11, 2014, the world lost one of the warmest, funniest, and furriest actors that it has ever known. I have heard it said that if you were born between 1980 and 1990, a group that includes all of the PopFilter writers, and I’m guessing most of our readership, Robin Williams meant a great…
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In which Stephanie Reviews a Film from Notmerica Brazil’s City of God or “It’s a hard knock life for child murders” When I started this article, my hope was that it would inspire people to go out and experience movies that dealt with things outside of their cultural bubble. I then had to make a…
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In which Stephanie Reviews a Film from Notmerica Japan’s My Neighbor Totoro or “The Anti Disney-Princess Fantasy Movie somehow still brought to you by Disney” Okay, that retitle is a little misleading. My Neighbor Totoro is a film by legendary animator and director Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away) and released in 1988. It…
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