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loaded question: what’s a notion you hold about pop culture (movies, TV, comics, whatev) that you know is unreasonable but can’t shake?

Tue, Jan 30, 2024
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Mine is a dark earworm about actors and the characters they (sometimes) portray that I know is absurd, and I can’t not hear it.

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daily stream: Reese Witherspoon hits the hiking trail to redeem herself

Wed, Jan 24, 2024
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2014’s Wild is on Direct TV in the US, Disney+ in the UK (and other services as well).

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daily stream: Will Smith pulls himself up by his bootstraps

Tue, Jan 23, 2024
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2006’s The Pursuit of Happyness is on Peacock in the US, Prime in the UK (and other services, too).

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OFCS 2023 awards nominees announced (updated with winners)

Tue, Jan 23, 2024
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Oppenheimer takes eight awards, Barbie four…

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loaded question: are the Razzies — or any discussion about the worst films in any given year — worth our time?

Mon, Jan 22, 2024
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Punching down is totally uncalled for, but I do think there is value in talking about movie worsts, if they focus on the excesses of the big-budget movie machine.

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my ranking of 2024’s movies has begun!

Sun, Jan 21, 2024
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There are only a few films on it so far, but the year is young…

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I.S.S. movie review: burns up on reentry

Sun, Jan 21, 2024
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It looks amazing and the cast is fab, but while this could-happen-tomorrow story wants to appropriate the magic of science fiction, it fails to think imaginatively about longstanding human problems.

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loaded question: what 2023 movie was the worst you saw?

Tue, Jan 16, 2024
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For me, this was School of Magical Animals, a desperately terrible Harry Potter family-fantasy knockoff out of Germany…

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daily stream: an elegantly nuanced story of emigration

Mon, Jan 15, 2024
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2015’s Brooklyn is on Prime in the US, Lionsgate+ in the UK (and other services as well).

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daily stream: happy optimism and fabulous food to rebuild your life

Sat, Jan 13, 2024
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2003’s Under the Tuscan Sun is on Prime in the US, Disney+ in the UK, and other services, too.

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