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The Good, the Bad, and “Unhinged” starring Russell Crowe

It wasn't easy, but we made it through 2021, folks! It was a tough year for all of us. Social distancing has done a lot to change our daily lives and habits. Everyone had their own way of coping, from taking up new hobbies to adopting puppies. Me? Well, I did adopt a puppy, too, but I also doubled-down on my love for movies more than ever before. Read more [...]

Exquisite Corpses

I noticed an interesting trend when looking at the list of nominations for Best Picture at the upcoming 93rd Academy Awards. Judas and the Black Messiah tells the story of the murder of Fred Hampton and the Black Panther movement of the 1960s through the lens of a crime thriller. Mank tries to recontextualize the narrative behind one of the most Read more [...]

The Wild Bourgeois

"This was going to be my last," Pike Bishop murmurs into his whiskey after a botched robbery of a railroad office results in the decimation of his gang. "I'd like to make one good score and back off." His partner, Dutch, his voice dripping with venom, snaps "Back off to what?" The question hangs ominously in the air as the two friends stare Read more [...]

The Year of Movie-cal Thinking

2020 hasn't been the best year for anyone, and Bobcat Territory was no exception. For the first time since we started the site we went through a multiple month streak of not posting a blogcat. This will be the first one since July. There are a whole bunch of reasons why it became difficult in the latter half of the year to summon the energy to Read more [...]

Into the Abyss

More than two years ago, I wrote a blogcat about the SyFy channel. You can read the original here. I gave that article the title the "uncanny valley," after a well-known psychological phenomenon, describing the revulsion people tend to feel when they see something that almost-but-not-quite-perfectly mimics a human being (like creepy animatronics). Read more [...]

The Uncanny Valley: The Unceasing Strangeness of the SyFy Channel

Fair warning: most of the video clips posted below are not safe for work, and many are mind-boggingly stupid as well. Seriously, don't watch them if there is anybody nearby who you want to respect you as a human being. "After an African dinosaur ancestor of the crocodile is found, Dr. Campbell uses its DNA to create prototypes at Paula Kennedy's Read more [...]