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Oppenheimer movie review: a particle of concern, a wave of complicity

Thu, Aug 24, 2023
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With human paradoxes at its nucleus, this is a riveting portrait, both intimate and epic, of the self-involved men who think they make the world go round… and too often, tragically, do.

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loaded question: what location-specific cultural event would you love to travel to?

Mon, Aug 21, 2023
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I’ll get to the Edinburgh Fringe someday. Maybe you’re burning to attend Burning Man in Nevada, hopped up for Oktoberfest in Germany, or down to boogie at Carnival in Rio?

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daily stream: crime as just another form of capitalism

Fri, Aug 18, 2023
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2020’s The Gentlemen is on Prime in the US, Netflix in the UK.

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daily stream: when you hit the gym and the gym hits back

Thu, Aug 17, 2023
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2015’s Results is streaming on Kanopy in the US, Prime in the UK.

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daily stream: maybe Mars *is* the kind of place to raise your kids…

Wed, Aug 16, 2023
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2020’s Proxima is on Kanopy in the US, BFI Player in the UK.

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Paris Memories (Revoir Paris) movie review: healing after horror

Tue, Aug 15, 2023
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A deeply humane, delicately constructed journey through trauma and recovery that cuts like a knife and soothes like a hug, somehow, miraculously, managing both bundles of feeling at the same time.

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loaded question: what death scene from a movie or TV show haunts you?

Mon, Aug 14, 2023
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My pick is from the early 1990s British crime drama series Cracker, in which Robbie Coltrane played a criminal psychologist. The character whose death haunts me is [spoiler]…

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daily stream: Hamlet, but make it angry and green

Fri, Aug 11, 2023
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2003’s Hulk is on Hulu in the US, and on Prime on both sides of the Atlantic.

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daily stream: Llewyn is the cat…

Tue, Aug 08, 2023
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2013’s Inside Llewyn Davis is on Prime on both sides of the Atlantic.

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loaded question: what are the greatest one-word catchphrases in pop-culture history?

Tue, Aug 08, 2023
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I got Ted Lasso’s “Believe,” Homer Simpson’s “Doh!” and the Fonz’s “Ayyyyy!” What others are there?

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