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There are a lot of reasons The Book of Boba Fett isn’t hitting with fans (creepy CGI Luke much?) but the big one, for us, is the PACING… which is ironic, because pacing used to be one of the defining…
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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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Waltzing Matilda (Station Eleven)
Flung out into space — a winter’s tale.
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The meanest letter I ever received
The other day I found the meanest letter I’d ever received. It was dated February 1995. I dug it out of the basement by accident, where it had been lost in the wrong box; I’d given up on it years…
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VHS Nostalgia, Part I
I don’t think you all realize how good tapes were. You’d have a tape. Big, wodgy thing. The size of a book, made of licorice. Inevitably noisy — predetermined to clatter, especially if you dropped one, which, don’t worry, they…
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Blu-ray Review: TIME, Spellbinding Work Of Lived, and Living, Memory
Director Garrett Bradley explodes her documentary to consider the breadth and weight of the years of an incarcerated family. Read more
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Pitching woo at DOOM PATROL
Doom Patrol got me through* the pandemic — along with all the other things that got me through the pandemic. Roll20. Pumpkin enzyme face masks. Ten years’ worth of whiskey. “Downtime” for iOS. But yeah. Doom Patrol. *it’s not over
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Everyone has a Substack now
And worse, I’ve started to subscribe.
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Review: NO TIME TO DIE
WHICH ONE IS THIS?: You Only Live Once WHO’S IN THIS ONE?: Craig (Bond); Fiennes (M); Harris (Moneypenny); Whishaw (Q, now canonically gay); Wright (Leiter).
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Blu-ray Review: With Bittersweet Timing, Criterion Unveils MELVIN VAN PEEBLES: ESSENTIAL FILMS
The five-disc set holds six feature films and abundant additional material to honour the late director, a voracious and pluralistic cinematic voice. Read more