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Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. 12/1/2019 Eighth Grade, 2018 (Rating: 3/5) 12/1/2019 The Virgin Suicides, 1999 (Rating: 2/5) 12/1/2019 We Need to Talk About Kevin, 2011 (Rating: 3/5) 12/1/2019 We Are Still Here, 2015 (Rating: 1.5/5) 12/2/2019 Insomnia, 2002 (Rating: 2.5/5) 12/2/2019 Half Nelson, 2006 (Rating: 2.5/5) […]
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Denis Leary has this music video that played in moderate rotation on Much Music in the early to mid ’90s called “Asshole.” It was a complete gag, but it sounded and looked its vintage, which lent it a certain authenticity to a kid just entering his teens. To my young eyes it seemed just about […]
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In love with a ghost Ideas mostly Like, what could have been If only everything was different Including us. To feel that close to you To touch skin To feel you pull away To sense hesitation To see careful restraint in your eyes To hear the distance in your voice Reminding myself it’s only just […]
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The night was nearly over by the time she joined the band on stage, but something opened up within me as Tristen encouraged the audience’s participation. With a gentle bob to her knees she stared into the crowd and crooned, “I don’t believe you, I don’t believe you.” It’s just a song, but it’s hardly […]
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Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. 11/2/2019 No Country for Old Men, 2007 (Rating: 4/5) 11/2/2019 Kill Bill: Vol. 1, 2003 (Rating: 3.5/5) 11/3/2019 Django Unchained, 2012 (Rating: 3.5/5) 11/3/2019 Drive, 2011 (Rating: 2.5/5) 11/3/2019 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, 2004 (Rating: 2.5/5) 11/3/2019 Parasite, 2019 (Rating: […]
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“I don’t quite understand where you’re going with all this, but I can tell you I don’t exactly have the patience for it right now,” she said, pushing the cocktail napkin back to him. “Maybe I’m getting the word wrong? I-idiom? It’s an idiom. W-what I’m trying to say is I think people like us […]
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While it’s not something I’ve done much of the last few years, taking photos has been a big part of the past decade and a half for me. With 2020 fast approaching, I used the last 50 days to post 50 photos from the last 15 years on Instagram. I couldn’t tell you what I […]
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Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. 10/1/2019 The Gingerdead Man, 2005 (Rating: 0.5/5) In service of landing the Gingerdead Man anything remotely resembling a proud legacy, the staff in charge of its production would have been well served to install absurd Gary Busey-inspired horse teeth in the cookie […]
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Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. 9/1/2019 Einstuerzende Neubauten 1/2 Mensch (1/2 Man), 1986 9/1/2019 Possibly in Michigan, 1983 9/2/2019 Savageland, 2017 (Rating: 2.5/5) Rarely have I seen a found footage horror film as thematically interesting as Savageland. Maybe I just haven’t been exposed to enough of these […]
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Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. 8/1/2019 Angst, 1983 (Rating: 3.5/5) In clumsier hands this could have been a forgettable Austrian lead-up to Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, but there is so much here that separates it from the cinematic glimpses into psychopathic behavior that followed. The […]
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Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. 7/3/2019 Paths of Glory, 1957 (Rating: 4/5) My mind is swirling with another puzzle piece now added to the cinematic wartime mosaic building in my mind. Paths of Glory is the Kubrickian slight to the caste system of wartime “leadership,” yet I […]
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Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. 6/2/2019 The Little Hours, 2017 (Rating: 2/5) 6/5/2019 Bad Times at the El Royale, 2018 (Rating: 2/5) Going in blind, any expectations I had centered around the Bad Times at the El Royale poster, the film’s badass title, and a few stray […]
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Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. 5/2/2019 Man with a Movie Camera, 1929 (Rating: 4.5/5) 5/3/2019 Napoleon Dynamite, 2004 (Rating: 2.5/5) 5/4/2019 What We Do in the Shadows, 2014 (Rating: 3/5) 5/5/2019 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 1988 (Rating: 2.5/5) 5/6/2019 Big Trouble, 2002 (Rating: 1.5/5) 5/6/2019 Hot Rod, 2007 […]
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Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. 4/1/2019 Night of the Demons, 1988 (Rating: 2/5) Even among heavy T&A, hard rockin’, hard partying horror flicks, Night of the Demons is a weird one. There are so many one-liners, then out of nowhere a genuinely thorough exposition about the difference […]
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Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. 3/2/2019 Freddy Got Fingered, 2001 (Rating: 2.5/5) 3/2/2019 Zombie Lake, 1981 (Rating: 0.5/5) Zombie Lake is about as haphazard an approach to portraying zombies on screen as I’ve ever seen, with the core of the movie focused on the zombies’ victims… which […]
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Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. 2/1/2019 A Scanner Darkly, 2006 (Rating: 2.5/5) From a visual point of view, I really enjoy A Scanner Darkly for about thirty minutes, but the aesthetic loses its charm slowly as the movie goes on. Picking things up are enjoyable performances bu […]
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Film diary and review entries made on the movie social media website Letterboxd. 1/1/2019 Airplane!, 1980 (Rating: 2.5/5) 1/1/2019 A Tale of Two Sisters, 2003 (Rating: 1.5/5) 1/1/2019 28 Days Later, 2002 (Rating: 2.5/5) 1/1/2019 28 Weeks Later, 2007 (Rating: 2/5) My gut reaction when hearing the same theme from the original in 28 Weeks […]