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Issue 52: Action!

October 2017

How The Poseidon Adventure Taught My Dad to Survive

Jordan Rudner·
Issue 52: Action!
On escaping a capsized boat, a burning building, or the Texas legislature.
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If Anyone Can, Bata Can

Fedor Tot·
Issue 52: Action!
My parents’ entire generation grew up with stories of Bata Živojinović. He was one of Yugoslavia’s most instantly recognizable film icons—perhaps the closest thing we ever had to a bona-fide action star.
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I Came Into This Game for the Action

Graham W. Osborne·
Issue 52: Action!
On Terry Gilliam’s Brazil as an “anti-action” film
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Boldly Going

Zosha Millman·
Issue 52: Action!
Star Trek uniquely bridges and predicts the flow of sci-fi over the latter half of the 20th century.
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What One Man Can Do, Another Can Do

Zach Vasquez·
Issue 52: Action!
David Mamet’s Bookworm (aka The Edge) on what it means to survive.
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I Hear a Train: Chaos and Control in Emperor of the North

Brian Brems·
Issue 52: Action!
"Such is the thrill of an expertly crafted action film like Emperor of the North—a forever wobbling balance between everything going just right, and everything going terribly wrong."
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The Lonely Eyes of a Contract Killer

David Nilsen·
Issue 52: Action!
In the largely forgotten Assassins, Sylvester Stallone plays the distillation of all his former characters and their desires.
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The High-Concept Humanity of Speed

Jonathan Foster·
Issue 52: Action!
Speed is an indelible piece of modern American cinema, but if you tweak any one of its ingredients the entire recipe is changed.
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It Goes the Other Way, Too

Victoria Large·
Issue 52: Action!
To revisit True Romance nearly 25 years later is to be carried away by a rush of color and action and character, to gasp and to wince and to laugh oneself breathless.
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The Demon Who Makes Trophies of Men

Nick Greer·
Issue 52: Action!
While it flexes like an action movie, Predator is really a horror movie, one that follows a classic format: the hunter becomes the hunted.
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All We Did Is Survive

Amy Woolsey·
Issue 52: Action!
Dunkirk tells its story through action: things happen, and the characters respond. It immerses—imprisons—you in your senses, restricting the world to your immediate surroundings and gut instincts.
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