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Re-entering The Grid: Looking back on Tron

August 25, 2011 – 7:45 am

Its retina-burning visual makeup and gaudy SFX instantly made Tron the stuff of cinematic legend, but is Disney’s 1982 cyber SCI-FI deserving of its status as a classic? The special effects have held up over time about as well as the original version of Pong looks juxtaposed alongside the latest 3D television. Tron’s dated look [...]

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Classic or clunker? Dusting off Beneath the Planet of the Apes

August 18, 2011 – 4:01 pm

It’s true in cinema, as it is in real life: sometimes we look back through the haze of nostalgia and remember things to be better than they actually were. Conversely, sometimes we look back and — jaded by age, muddled by circumstance, or justified by something as simple as “not in the mood” — we [...]

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