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loaded question: what’s your dream actor/director pairing, and what kind of movie would they make?

Mon, Sep 18, 2023
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I’m a big fan of Wes Anderson’s brand of humor, and I love the comic style Daniel Craig has embraced as Benoit Blanc. It would be wonderful to see what kind of magic they’d whip up together onscreen.

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loaded question: what are some great movies about underappreciated women in history?

Mon, Sep 11, 2023
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And why aren’t there more of them? (Rhetorical question; we know why.) Do you know of a historical woman most of us have never heard of whom you’d love to see a movie about?

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loaded question: what are some great movies about unions and the fight for workers’ rights?

Mon, Sep 04, 2023
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Industrial action on a scale unseen in perhaps decades is remaking economic landscapes on both sides of the Atlantic, and such events are rife with the personal and cultural drama movies love…

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loaded question: what bit of pop culture (movies, TV, books, comics, games, whatever) best captures the feeling of being disconnected with the larger world?

Mon, Aug 28, 2023
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I’m thinking about Cory Doctorow’s 2004 novel Eastern Standard Tribe, which speaks to me as an American ex-pat (from the US Eastern time zone) who still has not fully settled into UK time…

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

Tue, Aug 08, 2023
15 comments

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

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loaded question: is IMAX worth the premium upgrade?

Tue, Aug 01, 2023
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Does IMAX make a film feel more like an event in a way that cannot be replicated even with the best home setup, or even in small multiplex screens? Or does IMAX come at too high a price?

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loaded question: what are the best (and worse) ways characters have unexpectedly reappeared in a story?

Mon, Jul 10, 2023
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I have chosen the absolute nonsense of “Somehow, Palpatine returned,” which is so ridiculous that poor Oscar Isaac seems unable to muster enough enthusiasm to even pretend it makes sense…

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loaded question: what are some good movies about resilience and bouncing back from adversity?

Tue, Jun 20, 2023
15 comments

I’m having a tougher time getting back into the swing of things after my recent surgery than I was expecting, so help me out here…

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