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Heart Eyes
"You can be so Clueless sometimes. It's one of the 10 Things I Hate About You, honestly. You can't let him go to his Best Friend's Wedding and hook up with a bunch of Bridesmaids and move to Notting Hill."
Austin Noto-Moniz
Pop Culture Maniacs
Love Me
The core theme of Love Me destined it to be labeled a pandemic-era movie. While Americans had already been experiencing epidemic levels of loneliness in the late 2010s, the outbreak of COVID-19 and subsequent lockdowns highlighted what was already there while deepening that isolation. We were drowning in a preponderance
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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
"In the newly independent Congo, the role of the Congolese army will remain the same role it always played since 1886 when Leopold II created this army."
Pop Culture Maniacs
Grand Theft Hamlet
Transforming an actor's worst fear from "forgetting my lines" to "getting blown up by a stranger dressed as a cowboy stripper".
Pop Culture Maniacs
A brief announcement.
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Presence
It should surprise no one that Soderbergh's ghost story is far more concerned with its creative conceit than being scary. And that's a good thing.
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Hard Truths
"Why can’t you enjoy life?" "I don’t know!...Haunted. Haunted. It’s not fair."
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Sing Sing
"We don’t say that in here. We use 'beloved'."
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September 5
"It's not about politics, it's about emotion."
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The Last Showgirl
Gia Coppola's take on "The Wrestler"
Year End
Best Films I Watched This Year - 2024
From a wordless experimental doc to an intimately epic three hour nightmare.
Year End
2024 Wrap-Up
If you’re just interested in my top ten, you can skip my preamble and other categories by clicking here. At this time every year comes the inevitable question: was it a good one for movies? This year more than most, there are a multitude of ways to answer that