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Ingrid Goes West movie review: an antisocial-media story

Mon, Sep 04, 2017
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Bitter, snide, and ultimately brutal, exactly the movie about social media we deserve; a satire that is barely satirical. Aubrey Plaza is hashtag savage.

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Where Are the Women? Mortdecai

Mon, Jan 26, 2015
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Oh, there are lots of women here. And they’re either anonymous slavering sex machines or ridiculous perfect goddesses elevated on an absurd pedestal. [This post is not behind the paywall.]

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Mortdecai movie review: stinking mishap

Thu, Jan 22, 2015
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This painfully unfunny spoof of teddibly British nonsense couldn’t be less amusing if it were actually calculated to be totally laugh-free.

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fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Jul 06-12 2013

Sat, Jul 13, 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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what Tony Stark needs most is a hug (Iron Man 3 review)

Thu, Apr 25, 2013
29 comments

“I am Iron Man.” When Tony repeats that line here, it’s newly thrilling, and far more intriguing than it previously was.

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fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Mar 09-15 2013

Sun, Mar 17, 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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Benedict Cumberbatch gonna play Brian Epstein (and other adventures in social networking)

Fri, Nov 02, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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Avengers Assemble (aka Marvel’s The Avengers) (review)

Thu, Apr 26, 2012
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How many superheroes spoil the broth? More than six, apparently, at least when Joss Whedon is wrangling them.

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question of the day: Does the world need 96 new channels of YouTube content?

Tue, Nov 01, 2011
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Are our TVs not already chock full of more crap than we could ever watch, even if we wanted to watch it all? Doesn’t the glut of pointless, useless junk on the vast multitude of cable channels prove that there are already too many content streams and not enough good material to fill them?

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Contagion movie review

Mon, Oct 24, 2011
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Ohmygod the germs, the germs! They’re everywhere!

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