Welcome to the year of the romcom! Much has been made of the genre’s disappearance from the theatrical experience. True, they still flood streaming services, with Netflix distributing the best of recent years in Richard Linklater’s Hit Man. But with the exception of Anyone But You, few have
"All money ain't good money."
After a couple of fake trailers for amusingly dumb horror flicks, it was a genuine surprise that the opening of the film was shot from Jimmy's perspective. We're along for the ride in real-time as Jimmy putters and mutters about his apartment, doing coke and smoking
True crime has been around for hundreds of years, arising not long after the invention of the printing press. Whether it serves as a warning to the populace that a pleasant neighborhood is no guarantee of safety, or as pure entertainment designed to satiate our innate curiosity about the unfathomable
The culture war is sustained largely by reducing children to pawns, devices to deflect all criticism, stripping them of their agency and their voice. It's reaching a fever pitch, with the federal government and state administrations pushing various polices under the guise of protecting kids: book bans, barring
"No dissent, only warmth."
The very first scene of Oh, Hi! announces the shape the story will take. Iris (Molly Gordon) has beckoned Max (Geraldine Viswanathan) to the vacation home she's sharing with her boyfriend Isaac (Logan Lerman) for the weekend. Both women are in disbelief about an unnamed "bad thing&
"God bless your lost soul, and have a good night."
"Your pain is not a coincidence. You are not a coincidence. We are not a coincidence. Will you fight?"
"To have given each one of the million Negro free families a forty-acre freehold would have made a basis of real democracy in the United States that might easily have transformed the modern world." - W. E. B. Du Bois
"I've got enough ammunition for a world war."
Solid films you may have missed.
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The second edition of my mid-year check-in post.
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Kosinski attempts to cash in on the popularity of "Drive to Survive".
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"Memento amoris - remember you must love."
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"I am wonderful, I deserve to be wonderful, and I contain multitudes."
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"It's like they say: you're not ugly, you just don't have money."
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"I supposed I'm moved by this absurd performance."
Pop Culture Maniacs
Every shark movie lives in the shadow of Jaws. While not the first, it had an immediate and lasting impact on movie culture and the industry. For one, it spawned a bunch of imitators, most of which failed to make any impression, much less a comparable one. Even once that
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The kind of movie which plays a song called "Fight Like a Girl" by Evanescence over the end credits.
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"Oh sure, I'm a domestic goddess."
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Sally Hawkins going immediately from another Paul King film to an unhinged horror movie is perfection.
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"I can see the future. And it's full of pals helping pals."
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"Is there any need for good? It's unnecessary."