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Bugonia movie review: worst contact (London Film Festival 2025)

Fri, Oct 24, 2025
4 comments

Grimly hilarious, this mashup of black comedy, social commentary, suspense, and horror is sharp and stinging, with a haunting gut punch of a finale… and it’s Yorgos Lanthimos’s most accessible film yet.

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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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War Dogs movie review: sob havoc over this gun fun run

Wed, Aug 17, 2016
6 comments

A comedy only in the bleakest way, satire only in the sense that the whole world has become a parody of itself. Appalling and amusing in equal measure.

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Big Game movie review: small potatoes

Tue, May 19, 2015
6 comments

A kid rescues the President. It sounds like a joke movie The Onion might invent to satirize Hollywood preposterousness, but I swear to god, it’s real.

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how to live a creative life (via the Onion)

Fri, Mar 22, 2013
9 comments

Certainly this is the path to a happy, healthy, well-adjusted citizenry and a truly productive economy…

| 9 Comments

fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Feb 23-Mar 01 2013

Sun, Mar 03, 2013
3 comments

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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electronic burqa for inappropriately immodest women (and other adventures in social networking)

Thu, Feb 28, 2013
4 comments

Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

| 4 Comments

things I’ve been called…

Wed, Feb 27, 2013
41 comments

as a result of my “a feminist film critic defends the Onion’s Quvenzhané Wallis tweet” post…

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QOTD: What are some examples of great Hollywood satire — TV or film — that works?

Tue, Feb 26, 2013
17 comments

And does satire need to sting in order to be great?

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a feminist film critic defends the Onion’s Quvenzhané Wallis tweet

Mon, Feb 25, 2013
493 comments

Yeah, I’m going there.

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