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Why Fantasy?
Until the last decade or so, good genre films were hard to come by. In the days of video rental stores, the fantasy and science fiction aisles were full of low-budget fare. For every classic like The Dark Crystal or The Empire Strikes Back, there were a dozen B-movies like Krull, The Barbarians, Deathstalker, and…
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Tomorrowland
Tomorrowland has a simple message: stop being so negative. Yes, there are broader critiques of everything from a disaster-obsessed media to government regulation to dystopic science-fiction but this one message never gets lost. This is due in equal parts to a series of on-the-nose speeches and eye-popping utopic imagery seen during the film’s most breathtaking…
