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  • The best films of 2022

    The best films of 2022

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    I wonder when they’ll get around to doing a Letterboxd embed for WordPress. Well, until then, here are my twenty favourite films of the year, including category nominations. These will go into my OFCS ballot this week.

  • Samantha

    Samantha

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    I have given a name to my pain, and it is Samantha I don’t know why Samantha. The referent most often in my head, since Samantha became persistent enough to deserve naming, is of course Samantha Micelli from Who’s The Boss, but even as I write this I realize that the more likely source of…

  • Quitter

    Quitter

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    I’ve started a project — actually, four projects — in various stages of formfulness, and the result is, anytime I sit down to write, it’s more opportune to work on one of them than to write anything internet-facing — which in the post-Twitter world means this blog, cuz I can’t make any of the other…

  • The Ramen Dream

    The Ramen Dream

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    I started having the ramen dream, I am fairly sure, during the pandemic. If not, it would have started fairly close-to. Certainly, I was having the ramen dream sometime after the second time I visited Japan, in March/April 2019. Equally certainly, before the ramen dream, I would have told you that recurring dreams were the…

  • The best television of 2022

    The best television of 2022

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    Congratulations to us! We have once again survived a year of “content,” and yet another etch on the sliding scale between what used to be short- and long-form filmed storytelling, and whatever this medium is en route to becoming. And hey, bonus round: we did at least a sixth of it without twitter. And how…

  • Well, it ain’t Andor

    Well, it ain’t Andor

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    It happened quickly. Sitting in the dark pushing my way through the muddy middle plotting of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, or more recently this week, absorbing the tonal mishmash of the first two episodes of Disney+’s new Willow extension. “Well, it ain’t Andor,” my brain shrugged, and my expectations — and interest — accordingly dropped.…

  • Rix Road

    Rix Road

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    “THE DEAD SPEAK!!” So began the final episode of A More Civilized Age‘s mini-season of Andor coverage, recapping and responding to the season finale of Lucasfilm’s finest achievement in the Disney era*. Since about twelve hours after I got back from Egypt, I having been devouring this podcast ravenously. I’ve had cause to reflect, in…

  • Fans want power

    Fans want power

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    in which it becomes clear that power fantasies for children have fucked up a generation or two of grown-ups

  • Should I stay or should I go

    Should I stay or should I go

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    Twitter, now irretrievably devalued and set on a course to imminent or eventual obsolescence by the whims of a lousy billionaire with delusions of grandeur, was my social platform of choice. It wasn’t a “hell site,” though as a white cis man in an affluent country, it wouldn’t be (for me). It didn’t give me…

  • Death on the Nile

    Death on the Nile

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    So, which way does your brain cast? Forward or back? Sideways? Are there other options? Mine is stuck on “forward” most times, forever modelling the next sequence of events in nervous partial disregard of whatever is in front of it, right now. It makes watching a movie, or particularly a few movies in a row,…