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Hollywood Necropolis: The Dangers of Digital Performers
A commentary on the unsettling trend of using CGI versions of deceased performers in Hollywood blockbusters, from Rogue One to The Flash, and the industry's push to digitize people.
Jessica Ritchey is a writer based in the orbit between Washington D.C. and Baltimore. She credits a VHS copy of "Singin’ in the Rain" as her introduction to a love of movies. She
has written for several web outlets, and can be found watching foreign classics
in rapt silence at the AFI Silver or shouting things with the crowd at B-Fest
on Northwestern’s campus. She believes that high and low culture are illusory
barriers and that all art and storytelling is truly one big never-ending
conversation. She occasionally remembers she has a blog at Sugarbang.
A commentary on the unsettling trend of using CGI versions of deceased performers in Hollywood blockbusters, from Rogue One to The Flash, and the industry's push to digitize people.
In praise of Batman: The Animated Series.
It might have been morning in America, but it was permanently midnight in these films.
A tribute to the great Olympia Dukakis.
A little background on everyone's favorite monster.
A tribute to Beverly Cleary and a commentary on what's been lost in culture by forgetting her impact and style.
I don’t think Godzilla: King of the Monsters will give us singing twin fairies, but I hope it remembers that there is power in protection, not just destruction.
Jessica Ritchey on the episodes of The Twilight Zone that she thinks about the most.
A contributor watches Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel for the first time in her thirties, and in 2018.
The irony of being destroyed by the thing you helped create would not have been lost on a studio responsible for some of the finest film versions of Frankenstein.
