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loaded question: what movie do you most associate with summer?

Mon, Jun 20, 2022
2 comments

Maybe it’s a film set in the summer, or maybe there’s some other association for you.

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loaded question: is nostalgia out of control?

Tue, Jun 14, 2022
7 comments

I feel like if it is, this may be partly down to the forces that prompted last week’s Loaded Question: Is fandom out of control?

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loaded question: is fandom out of control?

Mon, Jun 06, 2022
3 comments

And perhaps more pertinently, if it is, how do we fix it?

| 3 Comments

loaded question: what are the best movies about taking a day off?

Mon, May 30, 2022
3 comments

Of course Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is the very best, and the most obvious answer, so let’s get that one out of the way right off the bat. What are some others?

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loaded question: what are some films with good representation of people with disabilities?

Mon, May 23, 2022
9 comments

Honestly, it’s tough to think of many films that do a good job of this! But Tod Browning’s controversial 1932 film Freaks might be, at least, better than many others.

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loaded question: what episodic stuff are you bingeing, and why should we watch it?

Mon, May 16, 2022
13 comments

There is simply too much stuff to watch these days! So tell us what you’re watching, and why it’s worth our time (or not).

| 13 Comments

loaded question: what entertainment expenses, if any, are you cutting back on in our financially tight times?

Mon, May 09, 2022
2 comments

Is there anything among your entertainment options (streaming, cinema outings, music, books, whatever) that would be the absolute last to go if money got too tight?

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loaded question: what are your favorite movies that mess with time?

Tue, May 03, 2022
2 comments

In honor of me being all temporally discombobulated because yesterday was a holiday here in the UK, so even though it’s Tuesday, it feels like Monday.

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loaded question: what movie are you dying to see?

Mon, Apr 25, 2022
11 comments

What is your ideal film that doesn’t already exist, however you define that?

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loaded question: how much longer can the superhero paradigm dominate movies… and what’s next?

Mon, Apr 18, 2022
13 comments

The teaser trailer for Thor: Love and Thunder landed today… and my response was, well, somewhat mixed. Where, when, and how does the current superhero cycle of cinema end?

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