Category: Years In Review
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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.
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In Summary: 2019
My output in the digital space is becoming less and less as I become more and more of a tech monkey behind the scenes, but it’s not nothing. Here’s what I put out there this year:
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Blu-ray Review: UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD Marks The End Of A Movie Decade
A 1991 film about 1999 feels exactly right in 2019, as we round out a decade in which film changed — and died — and will live — forever.
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A photo finish: was film, or TV, the narrative medium of the decade?
My best of the year and best of the decade lists for film will be on Letterboxd before the end of the year, but by the end of September I was also aware of another, marginally more unsettling feeling: that TV had eclipsed, or come very close to eclipsing, film as the storytelling art form…
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The Best Films Of 2018: My Ballot
The OFCS is collecting its nominations today. Here’s how I voted:
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The Toy Report: 2017
I don’t think I’ve enjoyed collecting this much in over a decade. I may honestly have taken it a bit too far; new job, new outlook on life, living high on the hog and buying every goddamn thing I set my eyes on. I cancelled a few pre-orders; re-sold a few things that showed up…