****

 

 

There can be

 

no more exceptions

 

or privileges.

 

Everybody must be equal...

 

 

The power of peace

 

must be dominant.

 

 

- Ukrainian President

 

Volodymyr Zelensky

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

!Congratulations

 

to

 

James Cameron

 

and

 

his visual effects wizards

 

Richard Baneham,

 

Daniel Barrett,

 

Joe Letteri,

 

and

 

Eric Saindon

 

on

 

their Oscar

 

for

 

Best Visual Effects

 

for

 

the daylit, allegorical

 

and CGI enhanced

 

animaction Zonebuster

 

AVATAR:

 

THE WAY OF WATER [2022]!

 

 

 

!Congratulations

 

also

 

to Guillermo Del Toro,

 

Alex Bulkley,

 

Mark Gustafson,

 

and

 

Gary Ungar

 

for

 

their Oscar

 

for

 

Best Animated Film

 

for

 

the daylit, allegorical

 

and all CGI

 

animated film

 

GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S

 

PINOCCHIO [2022]!

 

 

 

 

!More

 

congratulations

 

to

 

Sarah Polley

 

for

 

her Oscar

 

for Best Adapted Screenplay

 

for

 

the daylit and allegorical

 

indie docufeature film

 

WOMEN TALKING [2022]!

 

 

 

!And,

 

last but not least,

 

congratulations

 

to

 

Daniel Roher,

 

Alexei Navalny,

 

and the rest

 

of

 

the producers

 

and

 

the talented crew

 

of

 

the allegorical

 

 indie documentary film

 

NAVALNY [2022]

 

for their Oscar

 

for

 

Best Documentary!

 

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

Alas,

 

we are still

 

trapped in

 

the

 

20th anniversary year

 

of the

 

TZ disaster,

 

with the

 

20th anniversary year

 

of

 

the release

 

of

 

TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE

 

fast approaching.

 

 

 

However,

 

despite the

 

twilit doom and gloom,

 

feel free

 

to

 

check out

 

the revised

 

and

 

expanded thoughts

 

on the

 

twilit, allegorical

 

and

 

Ozian themed

 

 Quentin Tarantino

 

indie docufeature film

 

PULP FICTION [1994],

 

and

 

the slightly re-re-re-re-revised

 

thoughts

 

on

 

the twilit, allegorical

 

and

 

Ozian themed

 

indie docufeature film

 

JACKIE BROWN [1997],

 

the twilit and allegorical

 

indie docufeature film

 

 

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS 

 

[2009],

 

 

the twilit, allegorical

 

and

 

CGI enhanced

 

indie docufeature film

 

DJANGO UNCHAINED [2012],

 

and

 

the twilit and allegorical

 

indie docufeature film

 

THE HATEFUL EIGHT [2015],

 

and

 

shocking new insights

 

into

 

the daylit and allegorical

 

Drew Goddard

 

indie docufeature film

 

BAD TIMES AT

 

THE EL ROYALE [2018]

 

in the Tarantino "essay"

 

in

 

the Zone Warriors section!

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

 

!I have also

 

finally finished

 

revising and rewriting

 

the "essay"

 

on

 

David Lynch

 

in the

 

Zone Warriors section,

 

now complete

 

with

 

astounding insight

 

into

 

the twilit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced

 

and

 

implicitly Lynch roasting

 

Todd Field

 

indie docufeature film

 

TAR [2022].

 

 

Feel free to also

 

check out

 

the "essay"

 

on

 

Frolickin' Frank Miller

 

and

 

Rockin' Robert Rodriguez

 

for some

 

additional insights

 

into

 

the twilit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced

 

and

 

implicitly Lynch addressing

 

Steven Soderbergh

 

docufeature film

 

THE GOOD GERMAN [2006].

 

 

 

 

Make sure you also

 

drop by

 

the Kathryn Bigelow

 

"essay"

 

for new insight

 

into

 

the twilit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced

 

and

 

Ozian themed

 

indie docufeature artbuster

 

STRANGE DAYS [1995]

 

and

 

the twilit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced

 

and

 

implicitly Bigelow toasting

 

Michale Coldeway

 

et

 

Michel Lemire

 

hand animated film

 

HEAVY METAL 2000 [2000],

 

and

 

the Stanley Kubrick

 

"essay"

 

for new insight

 

into

 

the allegorical

 

Pietro Germi

 

indie docufeature film

 

DIVORCE ITALIAN

 

STYLE [1961],

 

and

 

the twilit, allegorical,

 

and Ozian themed

 

indie docufeature artbuster

 

EYES WIDE SHUT [1999].

 

 

 

 

 

Also check out

 

the slightly revised

 

Guillermo Del Toro

 

and

 

Denis Villeneuve

 

"essays",

 

the edited

 

and

 

no longer rough cut

 

of

 

the new

 

and

 

expanded

 

Jason Reitman

 

"essay"

 

complete with some

 

new thoughts

 

on

 

the twilit, allegorical

 

and

 

CGI enhanced

 

Darren Aronofsky

 

indie docufeature film

 

BLACK SWAN [2010],

 

the twilit, allegorical

 

and

 

CGI enhanced

 

Sir Ridley Scott

 

indie docufeature artbuster

 

THE LAST DUEL [2021],

 

and

 

a trio of

 

daylit, allegorical,

 

and CGI enhanced

 

Clint Eastwood

 

indie docufeature films,

 

and

 

click

 

on

 

the Terry Gilliam link

 

to read

 

the completely

 

rewritten, revised

 

and

 

mostly finished

 

"essay"

 

on

 

Frank Herbert's Dune Saga.

 

while you are at it.

 

 

!! CYB' HALUD!!

 

 

****

 

 

!Happy 20th

 

anniversary

 

also

 

to

 

Sir Peter Jackson

 

and the

 

very talented

 

cast and crew

 

of

 

the daylit, allegorical

 

and CGI enhanced

 

indie docufeature artbuster

 

THE LORD OF THE RINGS:

 

THE TWO TOWERS [2002]

 

and

 

a belated

 

Happy 20th anniversary

 

to its first installment

 

THE LORD OF THE RINGS:

 

THE FELLOWSHIP OF

 

THE RING [2001]!

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

 

"...This country 

 

is

 

something that must be chosen-

 

it is so easy to leave-

 

and

 

if we do choose it

 

we are still choosing

 

a violent duality."

 

 

- Margaret Atwood

 

from p. 62 of

 

THE JOURNALS

 

OF

 

SUSANNA MOODIE (1970)

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

 

"...There are no interpretations

 

but only misinterpretations."

 

 

- Harold Bloom,

 

from

 

THE ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE

 

(1973)

 

 

 

Aaaarrggghhh!!!

 

- poor ol' Gardevil

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

"Very few critics

 

work carefully,

 

thoughtfully enough.

 

To see a film once

 

and

 

write a review

 

is an absurdity."

 

 

- so sayeth Stanley Kubrick,

 

from p. 106

 

of

 

STANLEY KUBRICK: interviews,

 

ed. by Gene D. Phillips

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

 

"Once,

 

we were artists.

 

!Pure!

 

But we,

 

all of us,

 

we became a distraction,

 

compromised

 

for the sake of fame,

 

comfort,

 

the approval

 

of strangers...

 

We

 

sing and dance

 

not to entertain

 

but to distract people

 

from the crushing gears

 

of a capitalist machine

 

that has no ideals

 

save for

 

greed and violence.

 

And let's not

 

kid ourselves,

 

Hollywood

 

is the best PR firm

 

the gunmakers

 

ever had.

 

What a sick culture...

 

This is a system

 

of soul-murder.

 

And history

 

will not be kind to us

 

for our complicity,

 

because

 

we know better."

 

 

- so sayeth

 

Jim Carrey

 

on

 

pp. 102-3

 

of

 

the allegorical

 

Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon

 

novel

 

Memoirs

 

And

 

Misinformation (2020)

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

 

"...Then

 

when we

 

in turn

 

write,

 

speak

 

or do things,

 

we release

 

our ideas

 

out  into

 

the environment,

 

where they

 

can infect

 

new brains.

 

Ideas,

 

like viruses,

 

thus proliferate

 

at prodigious rates,

 

changing

 

at prodigious rates

 

as they do so."

 

 

- George P. Smith

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"The Evil

 

running rampant

 

around the world

 

shows no signs

 

of disappearing.

 

It hasn't changed

 

since I became

 

a Hero for fun.

 

In other words,

 

I am having no effect

 

on society.

 

I'm not sad about that.

 

I do this for fun,

 

so I just need

 

to satisfy myself."

 

 

- from

 

the intriguingly garish,

 

twilit, allegorical

 

and

 

CGI enhanced

 

One and Murata Yusuke

 

manga

 

One-Punch Man:

 

volume one,

 

p. 92.

 

 

 

Of course,

 

for

 

fittingly punchy

 

"insights"

 

into

 

One-Punch Man,

 

drop by

 

the

 

"essay"

 

on

 

Gary W. "Gardevil" Wright

 

in the

 

Zone Warriors

 

section.

 

 

!'Nuck said! 

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"Power is lost or won,

 

never created

 

or

 

destroyed."

 

 

- Immaculee Constantin,

 

from p. 100

 

of the

 

twilit, allegorical,

 

CGI enhanced

 

and

 

implicitly Gardevil roasting

 

David Mitchell novel

 

 

THE BONE CLOCKS (2014)

 

 

 

****

 

 

"...A pestilence does not have

 

human dimensions,

 

so people tell themselves

 

that it is unreal,

 

that it is a bad dream

 

which will end.

 

But it does not always end

 

and,

 

from one bad dream

 

to the next,

 

it is people who end,

 

humanists first of all

 

because

 

they have not prepared

 

themselves."

 

 

- THE PLAGUE

 

by Albert Camus

 

p. 30.

 

 

 

****

 

 

"...The sugar

 

was sweeter

 

when you gave

 

it

 

to someone else

 

to taste."

 

- Harper Grayson

 

from p. 206

 

 

of the twilit, allegorical

 

and

 

CGI enhanced novel

 

 

THE FIREMAN (2016)

 

 

by Joe Hill

 

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

...life is the same as death

 

but the soul continues

 

in the same blinding light

 

 

- Ti Jean

 

from 123rd Chorus

 

of

 

MEXICO CITY BLUES

 

 

 

****

 

 

"...The truth is always best.

 

The only trouble is -

 

what is the truth?"

 

 

- Rockie

 

from

 

Out In The Open:

 

life on the street (1997)

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

"...Received opinion

 

is

 

often wrong

 

and 

 

usually boring;

 

the text is yours

 

to interpret...

 

This ability

 

to read symbolically,

 

to view

 

the very world

 

around us

 

symbolically,

 

is at the heart

 

of the whole

 

literary

 

[and cinema games].

 

To accept things

 

at first glance

 

to be

 

as they appear

 

on the surface

 

is to be trapped

 

in the literal.

 

To be able

 

to see

 

symbolic possibilities

 

allows one

 

to begin to make

 

connections

 

between things

 

that at first

 

seem to have

 

little to do

 

with each other."

 

 

 

- Doctor David R. Williams, PhD

 

from p 88 and 136

 

of

 

SIN BOLDLY:

 

Dr. Dave's guide to writing

 

the college paper (2004).

 

 

****

 

 

"...Life, 

 

he realized,

 

was a profoundly

 

complicated thing.

 

It was filled with awe

 

and wonder

 

and beauty,

 

but it was also filled

 

with heartbreak

 

and

 

loneliness.

 

Maybe that was what

 

made it

 

so precious.

 

You could never know

 

what to expect next,

 

or who might

 

step into

 

or out of

 

your world.

 

And the truth was

 

that we were all

 

navigating the mystery

 

together."

 

 

- from 

 

the implicitly

 

Jason Reitman

 

addressing teen novel

 

Superman: dawnbreaker (2020)

 

by Matt De La Pena, 

 

pp. 204-5

 

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

And

 

remember,

 

when in

 

Mississauga,

 

always visit

 

Image Collections,

 

the

 

finest emporium

 

of

 

collectibles,

 

games

 

and

 

narrative art

 

in

 

Streetsville,

 

"...the town in the city"

 

of Mississauga.

 

 

!!'Nuck said!!

 

 

 

****

 

 

 

RIP

 

 

 

Tim Bachman

 

Russell Banks

 

Jeff Beck

 

Ethan Bespflug

 

Robert Blake

 

Earl Boen

 

Ricou Browning

 

Anthony Ciccone

 

Carole Cooke

 

David Crosby

 

Tarek Fatah

 

Ed Fury

 

Michael "Micky" Geller

 

Paul Grant

 

Peter Hernndorf

 

Juliet Hulme

 

Barry Humphries

 

Al Jaffee

 

Michael Lerner

 

Gina Lollobrigida

 

Hazel McCallion

 

Murray Melvin

 

Lloyd Morrisett

 

Tyre Nichols

 

David Onley

 

Jansen Panettiere

 

Tatjana Patitz

 

Lisa Marie Presley

 

Mary Quant

 

Andrew "Andy" Rourke

 

Tom Sizemore

 

Stella Stevens

 

Ray Stevenson

 

Tina Turner

 

Nicholas L. Webber

 

Raquel Welch

 

Tom Whitlock

 

Cindy Williams

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

****