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Jordan Peele

weekend watchlist: a sci-fi mood piece of eeriness, ookiness, and dread

Tue, Sep 27, 2022
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Plus a snarky heist, a two-century-old energy crisis, and more. (First published August 27th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)

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Nope movie review: are we not entertained?

Fri, Aug 26, 2022
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There are delicious popcorn-movie vibes and horrors galore, both funny-suspenseful and stone-cold bone-chilling. But most intriguing is the twistiness of how the movie grapples with its own existence.

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Candyman movie review: say his name… and understand its power

Tue, Aug 24, 2021
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Strikingly original horror with a purpose: to delve into the mythologizing of the past, to explore the boundary between cultural appropriation and artistic inspiration, to heed the lessons of history.

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OFCS 2019 awards winners announced

Wed, Jan 08, 2020
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And we have winners!

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Toy Story 4 movie review: recycled playthings… again

Wed, Jun 19, 2019
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The series’ saving grace is that, with humor and heart so beautifully wise and stunningly rendered (CGI pun intended), even as returns diminish, a new chapter is still warm and smartly entertaining.

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Us movie review: a new kind of horror for a newly precarious world

Wed, Mar 20, 2019
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An anxious moan, a looming disquiet of a reckoning coming for America. This is horror as weird, funny, damning, and more disconcerting the more you think about it, finding fear right in front of us.

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my picks for tonight’s 90th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2017’s films) (winners indicated)

Mon, Mar 05, 2018
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I correctly guessed 15 out of the 24 categories, which is one of my better showings ever, I think.

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AWFJ 2017 EDA Awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 09, 2018
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The Shape of Water wins Best Film, and Best Director goes to Guillermo del Toro. Agnes Varda is Defying Age and Ageism, and Hollywood’s sexual tormentors are inducted in the AWFJ Hall of Shame.

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OFCS 2017 awards winners announced

Thu, Dec 28, 2017
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Get Out wins Best Film and Best Original Screenplay. Call Me by Your Name, Dunkirk, and Three Billboards also take two awards each.

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curated: explaining the problem of black Brits playing African Americans onscreen

Thu, Apr 06, 2017
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Good stuff here.

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