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Dan Persons

Dan Persons is a veteran film critic and journalist. His reviews can be read at cinematicsqueak.substack.com and can be heard weekly on WBAI 99.5FM’s Hour of the Wolf. He is also the instigator, developer, and sole practitioner of SpaceBrains3D, a funky, low-budget process for turning 2D video into stereoscopic 3D.

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Avery Brooks as Benjamin Sisko in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
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Star Trek: DS9’s “In the Pale Moonlight” and the Option to Backtrack on the Road to Hell

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Demi Moore as Elisabeth Sparkle in The Substance
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The Substance Is a Different Brand of Exploitation Film

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David Lynch in What Did Jack Do?
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No Headline Can Sum Up David Lynch

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Jean Kayak (Ryland Brickson Cole Tews) is attacked by a beaver brandishing a chair in Hundreds of Beavers
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You’ve Heard of Chekhov’s Gun? Hundreds of Beavers Opens Up a Whole Arsenal

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Screenshot from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, depicting a mass of crows roosting on a jungle gym and other structures.
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Hitchcock’s The Birds Welcomes Us to the Abyss

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Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in The Babadook
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The Babadook Knows Terror Has No Boundaries

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A scene from The Venture Bros. episode "Spanikopita"
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The Venture Bros.’ “Spanakopita!” and the Desperate Quest for Joy

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Scene from The War of the Worlds (2019, BBC): an alien tripod looms over a church tower and a human figure.
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The Timely “Why” of The War of the Worlds — From Wells and Welles to Pal and Spielberg

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Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) drives a pale yellow convertible in an image from the television series Kolchak: The Night Stalker
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Kolchak: The Night Stalker’s “Horror in the Heights” Misdirects in Many Dimensions

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