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Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Clog Report: Karl the Fog’s cousin lives in Berkeley! Meet Misty the Mist

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Just as San Francisco’s fog has earned the name of Karl the Fog, we at the Clog have decided to name Berkeley’s own weather phenomenon Misty the Mist — who just so happens to be a cousin of Karl. 
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Culture Shot

Friday, April 5, 2019

‘Dumbo’ is bad, but an elephant never forgets that Tim Burton was good once: Ranking the director’s best, worst

Tim Burton is an anomaly. Ranking his films entails touching the peaks of soul-bearing creativity and diving into laziness that stinks of self-loathing.
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Film & Television

Friday, March 29, 2019

Burton’s best of the decade, ‘Dumbo’ still lands with a thump

An impersonal reimagining of an artistic Hail Mary for the purpose of a box office guarantor, the film is one of those chores that’s somehow both bloated with inanities and empty of vision.
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Culture Shot

Monday, April 17, 2017

Another Batman movie wishlist: A rebuttal from someone who doesn’t care about comics, just wants a great film

As a diehard fan of Christopher Nolan and his now legendary trilogy, I do have to offer a rebuttal for my vision of the next Batman film.
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Film & Television

Thursday, January 19, 2017

Fortunately, Netflix’s ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ does justice to Baudelaire orphans

If the dismal tale of three unlucky orphans and the villain who chases them in pursuit of their enormous fortune sounds too dismal to watch, please, look away. If, however, the idea of seeing the miserable history of the Baudelaire orphans done justice sounds appealing, then Netflix’s gorgeously gloomy adaptation
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Film & Television

Thursday, September 29, 2016

‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ skimps on peculiarities

Even with a boy made of bees, a girl who eats from the back of her head and a toddler with the strength of 10 men, the only thing peculiar about this movie is its execution. While Hollywood has accepted that young adult literature exists solely to be franchised (“The
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Film & Television

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Retro Resurrection: Tim Burton directs Johnny Depp in film adaptation of ‘Dark Shadows’

In “Dark Shadows,” Barnabas Collins does not rise from his slumber majestically, cape whipping behind him, on a stormy night in Transylvania. Nor does he have rippling adolescent pecs a la “Twilight.” This vampire, played by Johnny Depp, instead springs out of the coffin after being freed by digging construction
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