Bruce, Slashfilm, Versions, 2023
A Digest of my latest Posts (December 2023)
Dear readers, this is the thirteenth issue of an ongoing monthly-ish series that I like to call Mikhail’s Textual Variations Digest or MTVD, for short. Here you will find links to posts published over the course of December 2023 on Textual Variations.
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December 7Arrow Video buries 3-hour Bruce Lee documentary with unearthed footage
Earlier in November, Arrow Video began releasing standalone regular Bluray editions of several Bruce Lee movies that it had previously included in the extensive 10-disc 4K UHD Box Set called Bruce Lee at Golden Harvest, which collected all five of Bruce Lee’s feature films alongside five discs of special features.
December 12How Slashfilm Plagiarized My Original Shyamalan Article
A personal essay, where I open up about my experience with plagiarism by a writer from the mainstream film blog /Film. I argue that one reason this happened is because /Film has become a content mill, where writers are forced to churn out clickbait posts with catchy headlines.
December 19A Discussion Thread that raises the question: “What’s the Moment You Realized that Movies Can Exist in Different Versions?”
In the course of it, I share my story about realizing as a kid that there were different versions of the weird 80s Martial Arts movie No Retreat, No Surrender.
December 26Best of T.V. 2023 and Revisiting 'Home Alone 2'
A little bit about my newsletter’s progress, some of my best/favorite posts, and a brief discussion of 'Home Alone 2: Lost in New York' (dir. Chris Columbus, 1992), which I had just rewatched.