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Toronto 2012: 'Cloud Atlas' Director Lana Wachowski on Making a 'Monobrow' Film
Hollywood Reporter
“We try to make monobrow movies,” Lana Wachowski (The Matrix trilogy) told the Cloud Atlas press conference Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival, as she revealed the secret of combining highbrow ideas and lowbrow entertainment tropes to ...

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Twitch
TIFF 2012 Feature: LOOPER Offers Originality and Resonance from Tried and ...
Twitch
Looper lovingly references elements and tropes of the bright lights in the genre over the years, from Back To The Future and The Terminator, to a few hat-tips towards Rod Serling's TV staple, The Twilight Zone, and peppered with light touches on Philip K.
'Looper' Review and Video Blog: Rian Johnson's Time Travelling Sci-Fi Drama .../FILM (blog)
Film Review: 'Looper'Cine-Vue

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'Jewish Jane Austen' subverts the mother-in-law trope
The Australian
Jacobson's is a literary art form based on emasculation, Jewishness and domineering women, a satire as coruscating as it is devastating. Often called "the British Philip Roth", he prefers "the Jewish Jane Austen", which may sound ostentatious but his ...

Subreddit Criticizes and Aims To Take Down Tropes Vs Women In Video Games
Gameranx
Anita Sarkeesian can't catch a break. Spotted earlier today by Gameranx staff was this Reddit gaming thread where many Redditors have congregated to provide ample criticism of the Tropes vs Women in Video Games project. The ire rises from the ...

USA TODAY
Barbara Wallace: Here a trope, there a trope, everywhere a trope, trope
USA TODAY
By Joyce Lamb, USA TODAY. Many people who don't read romance novels have a tendency to call them formulaic and cliche. Of course, we don't listen to those people. We prefer to get our information from people who actually read the books and have ...

Major networks rehash old tropes for fall TV season
Boston.com
The tropes emerge — the middle-aged guys sitcom, the mythology-heavy apocalyptic adventure, the 1960s period drama, the medical or legal or police procedural — and they do not fade away. To wit: There is always an entirely unnecessary TV remake or ...

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"Legitimate Rape": An Old Right-Wing Trope
Daily Beast
Todd Akin, the GOP Senate candidate in Missouri, did not come up with this idea of "legitimate rape" on his own. As Garance Franke-Ruta of The Atlantic notes, it's been floating around in the mite-infested right-wing air since the 1980s. She cites some ...

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At 9:30 Club, Dirty Projectors applies old-school rock tropes to accessible effect
Washington Post
So a few old-school rock tropes go a long way. Midway through “Offspring Are Blank,” Longstreth kicked on the distortion pedal and plunged the band into a Neil Young-worthy rave-up. On “The Gun Has No Trigger,” the band took cues from vintage soul ...

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Five liberal tropes Ryan can eviscerate
Washington Post (blog)
Five liberal tropes Ryan can eviscerate. By Jennifer Rubin. 1. “Mitt Romney wants tax cuts for the rich.” This line is repeated ad nauseum by every Obama flack and media pundit. In fact, Romney-Ryan want to reduce rates for everyone and take away ...
With Ryan Pick, Romney Throws Down Gauntlet on Debt and TaxesHuffington Post

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The Audacity of Trope
Daily Tribune News
So often these days, we hear complaints about the divisive nature of partisan politics and a longing for a time when candidates were more genial and our politics more civil. Alas, in doing so we seek for the equivalent of the elusive white unicorn ...

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