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Author: Maddi Chilton

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A close-up of the World Cup trophy shining on the field of a massive stadium.

Athletic Feats of Narrative

By Maddi Chilton • January 31st, 2023

Experiencing a story as it happens, one where an ending hasn’t been decided – that is what gives sports their fun and their nerve.

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A still from the movie Barbarian shows a woman with long curly hair standing on a porch gazing off into the night.

Go In Blind

By Maddi Chilton • December 6th, 2022

There’s a very simple reason why you have to go into Barbarian blind: because the big twist makes no sense.

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A still of Tom Hanks smirking sleazily as Colonel Tom Parker in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis.

Evil as Can Be

By Maddi Chilton • October 4th, 2022

The idea that Elvis would have been happy and healthy and long-lived if only were it not for his life-long manager Colonel Tom Parker is ahistorical.

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A black and white lithograph of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson deep in discussion while traveling by train.

An Introduction

By Maddi Chilton • September 6th, 2022

It is becoming more and more challenging to consume art, to use the current crass colloquialism. We just know too much.

A womans body, in a transparent jacket and black underwear, covered in blood. This is a still from Blade Runner.

Blade Runner and the Violence of Humanity

By Maddi Chilton • October 27th, 2017

Replicants bleed, stumble, hyperventilate, and wince. Pris and Roy kiss like grade-schoolers even as they mourn their friends and worry about the future…They’re frightened, and they don’t want to die.

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