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Working As Intended: ‘Multiplex monotony’ and the death of the mid-budget MMORPG
Bree Royce
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February 20, 2015
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Back in December, film editor and author Jason Bailey wrote a piece on Flavorwire called How the Death of Mid-Budget Cinema Left a Generation...
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