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weekend watchlist: when the ghosts won’t shut up

Mon, Sep 12, 2022
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Plus sci-fi noir, sun-fueled madness, and more. (First published August 12th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)

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Men movie review: if it walks like misogyny and squawks like misogyny…

Fri, Jun 10, 2022
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A “critique” of misogyny that is outright misogynist, even before it goes down a gorefest rabbit hole of infuriating contempt for women. What the hell is going on with this would-be-mythic mishmash?

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my predictions for Oscars 2016 (88th Academy Awards for 2015’s films)

Mon, Feb 29, 2016
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Now updated with all the winners…

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AWFJ 2015 EDA Awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 12, 2016
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Spotlight takes four awards, including Best Film…

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OFCS 2015 awards winners announced

Mon, Dec 14, 2015
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Mad Max: Fury Road gets a lot of love…

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Ex Machina movie review: damselbot in distress

Fri, Jan 23, 2015
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There’s nothing fresh or even usefully true in its cartoonish dichotomy about men, but this pseudo-SF flick will expound upon it with pretentious tedium.

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Never Let Me Go movie review: ordinary people

Wed, Oct 06, 2010
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I’ve come to realize recently that there’s something more chilling, more eerie than a fictional dystopian world: a fictional dystopian world in which no one understands they’re living in a dystopia.

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