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EK Highgate

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Fashionably Early: Welcome to My Home – The First Influencer Video

Rather than buy a ring light and a mini microphone she blew $5K on a cameraman to come film a day of her life as she fumbled through what would ultimately become the Fashion Haul and Get Ready With Me (or #GWRM). She also gave diet and exercise advice just as proudly dubious as any modern lifestyle influencer.

And They Were Broommates: A Postmortem of The Covenant (2006)

That they made The Craft: It’s Boys Now isn’t surprising. What is surprising is the film works as a blue-tinted cautionary tale about making shallow assumptions based on gender.

Bear Jam: An Over-Analysis of Grizzly (1976)

Not long after the Night of the Grizzlies, but long before the first Fat Bear Week, the film Grizzly (1976) was released. You'd be forgiven for assuming it was inspired by the tragedy at Glacier National Park, and it seems like a lost opportunity for a "based on a true story" tagline. From what I can tell, Grizzly was almost wholly based on "Jaws made a metric fuckton of money, so what if Jaws but bear?"

Great Bat Puppets of Cinema

As any cat will tell you, there’s something inherently magical about an object dangling on a string. This is the operating principle of the bat puppet. If a film is dragging, a bat puppet is a sure way to perk things up, in a strong film, a bat puppet will add to the fun. It’s hard to go wrong with a bat on a string.
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