Category: Years In Review
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The best films of 2022
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.
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Samantha
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…
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Quitter
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…
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The best television of 2022
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…
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When I was a little girl
I wanted a pony and a princess and a big scary alien dude
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The Best of the Year; The Best of the Decade
2019 might have had me asking whether movies or television had ultimately accomplished more in terms of my emotional interest, but it wasn’t as though the movies weren’t good. In fact, they were great.