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Alan Nicholas

A sonnet (#1)

1 min readApr 20, 2024

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A sonnet (#1)

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Alan Nicholas

The Seventh Seal or The Perfect Film

Talking about Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957) first necessitates I discuss the difference in “film” and “movie” as I apply the…

3 min readMar 24, 2022

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Alan Nicholas

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo or Middling Fincher at his Best

What to make of this film?

3 min readMar 23, 2022

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Alan Nicholas

How The Batman Should Transform the Comic Adaptation Industry

As I write this, The Batman is posed to surpass $250M worldwide at the box office. By the time you read this it will likely have done so…

8 min readMar 8, 2022

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Alan Nicholas

Separating the Artist from the Art in a Post-Joss Whedon World

Tell me your Joss Whedon story. I’ll go first.

12 min readJan 26, 2022

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Alan Nicholas

Where Did the Magic Go? (A proffered defense of WW84)

Everyone knows that magic is not real. We all know that when Penn and Teller mystify us in Las Vegas, we are just being fed an illusion…

5 min readDec 31, 2020

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Alan Nicholas

Populist Nightmares of Now

Over the past four years I’ve been paying a little more attention to Twitter than I should. Or maybe the right amount, I’m not sure. But…

6 min readDec 11, 2020

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Populist Nightmares of Now

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Alan Nicholas

The Spider-Verse Is Coming

We now know that the third Tom Holland Spider-Man film will have a villain from Garfield’s Spider-Man (Electro by Jamie Foxx), a villain…

3 min readDec 8, 2020

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Alan Nicholas

Birds of Prey or The Longest Actual Title of a Movie

Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (as the film is fully and horribly titled) is my third favorite DC film…

3 min readFeb 21, 2020

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Alan Nicholas

An Open Letter to Paul Tremblay

Dear Paul,

3 min readSep 21, 2019

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Alan Nicholas

Alan Nicholas

Lawyer in West Texas, Married with Kid(s), Top Writer on Quora.com in 2014, 2017, and 2018, with answers featured on Forbes, Apple News, and Huffpost.

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