Pop Culture Maniacs

Pop Culture Maniacs

The Rule of Jenny Pen

My whole life I've been bored. I look back and see an empty bin.

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Cleaner

Cleaner feels like a relic from a bygone era. The many comparisons it's received to Die Hard are debatable, although the marketing is certainly inviting them. To be fair, their cores are the same: an action-thriller in the style of an airport novel about an unassuming person thrust

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Armand

A new Renate Reinsve movie is always a reason to celebrate, especially one like this which lets her fully utilize her wonderful range.

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Bring Them Down

"Y'know what they say. Where there's livestock, there's dead stock."

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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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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".