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GROSS /68 1977, part two - Star Wars - another death star will be along presently
You wait till you see the dark enlightenment.
 • Steve Bowbrick
GROSS/68 - 1977, part one - Star Wars - war on cinema, more like
Thinking about how to write about Star Wars. A free preview post.
 • Steve Bowbrick
GROSS/67 1976 - Rocky - simultaneously sweet and lofty and terribly dumb
Frank Capra somehow meets Bertolt Brecht.
 • Steve Bowbrick
GROSS EXTRAS - Moby Dick, Walter Benjamin and Eugene V. Debs
Now, in between the movie essays: interesting links, quotes and shorter pieces…
 • Steve Bowbrick
GROSS/66 1975 - Jaws - Spielberg’s suburban Moby Dick
Exemplary movie-making and extreme moral cowardice
 • Steve Bowbrick
GROSS REVISIONISM - an updated (and now complete) Die Hard alphabet
A city within the City of Quartz.
 • Steve Bowbrick
Where do the AIs hang out?
The first post in a new publication, about what might turn out to be the single greatest threat to human autonomy and happiness in history.
Published on Paragraphs about AI • 
GROSS - cinema history and criticism
GROSS - cinema history and criticism
A materialist critique of the immaterial joys of the cinema and a chronological journey through the biggest movies of all time.
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