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Being John Malkovich

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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Dream Scenario movie review: (un)likely boogeyman

Sun, Nov 26, 2023
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Nicolas Cage is comedic in a dry, subtle, nakedly painful way, playing with his “Cage rage” persona; his performance is profoundly moving. I only wish the film was more deserving of what he’s doing.

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The Big Sick movie review: girlfriend in a coma, the rom-com

Fri, Jul 28, 2017
12 comments

A rom-com for people who hate rom-coms. A painfully funny movie, full of enrapturing emotion that captures the glorious contradictions of all kinds of love.

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Anomalisa movie review: maximal mundanity

Thu, Feb 25, 2016
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An astonishing, even perception-altering experience that represents a startling use of animation to tell a story that no live-action film could tell.

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Her movie review: manic pixel dream girl

Mon, Jan 06, 2014
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It’s the rise of the machines as romantic dramedy, and the Singularity as romantic tragedy. It’s the nicest, gentlest sci-fi horror film ever.

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when did movies start sucking?

Mon, Sep 09, 2013
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I’ve given green lights to plenty of films in recent years, but I can’t shake the sense that, in the aggregate, movies suck, and have been sucking since 2000.

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fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Mar 30-Apr 5 2013

Sun, Apr 07, 2013
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Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…

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the Eye of Sauron, it burns (and other adventures in social networking)

Fri, Jun 29, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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what he said: Patrick Goldstein at The Big Picture…

Tue, Oct 05, 2010
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…on The Social Network as such a dramatic contrast to the appalling quality of most Hollywood big-screen scriptwriting these days…

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Friday night fortune cookie: Craig Schwartz says…

Fri, Oct 01, 2010
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“Consciousness is a terrible curse.”

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