Hacking Cinema
Christine Gerardireverse engineering the movies
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) and the Process of Cinema
I was raised by Netflix. Not the streaming service, the red envelopes that came in the mail. Teenager Christine had a very strict routine. To get the most out of my two discs per week, I watched each movie two nights in a row, the second ni...
Hamnet (2025)
I am an enthusiastic Letterboxd user, but I worry that instant exposure to a flood of half-baked opinions harms my ability to analyze a film clearly. Lately I’ve been finding myself responding to a general perception of the film gleaned fro...
WALL-E (2008) And The Convenience Singularity
During the pandemic, I decided that I could use a cast iron skillet. When I went online to browse the options, it became apparent that I could have a twelve-inch cast iron skillet in under twenty-four hours if I ordered the “Amazon Basics”...
Hacking Cinema #13: My Coppola Power Rankings
Prior to today, the Coppola Power Rankings have existed only in my mind. Now, an up-to-the-minute snapshot of the rankings becomes available to you, the readers of Hacking Cinema. Note that this is not an objective ranking of the Coppolas’...
Hacking Cinema #12: Hit Man Hit Piece
What I love the most about movies is their ability to surprise me, even after twenty plus years of watching them and thinking about them. This past month, I was surprised by Hit Man, Richard Linklater’s direct-to-Netflix release co-written...
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