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Sunday Morning! “Wanda” and “The Last Jedi” wanda

Sunday Morning! “Wanda” and “The Last Jedi”

Rufus F. March 17, 2019

It's pretty hard to think of two movies as different from one another as Wanda and The...

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Batman vs Superman, Seriously

Kristin Devine March 7, 2019

So if “doing what works” is a working definition of fascism, and an affinity for “doing what...

Tenshot: The Hobbit

Michael Siegel March 4, 2019

The Hobbit movies are good movies; they could have been great movies.

Sunday Morning! Tarkovsky’s “Stalker” (1979) 8033226904_d01b8e84d9_tarkovsky-stalker

Sunday Morning! Tarkovsky’s “Stalker” (1979)

Rufus F. March 3, 2019

The director angrily replied that the movie needed to be slower at the beginning so bored audience...

Part Man. Part Machine. All Human. Robocop

Part Man. Part Machine. All Human.

pillsy March 2, 2019

Blade Runner is one of my favorite movies. Still, I believe that a movie could absolutely do...

The Winter of Our Oscar Discontent

Michael Siegel February 24, 2019

Time is passing the Oscars by. And I think more and more people are happy to...

Jaybird on Weekend Plans Post: The Escape RoomRemember what the drowning man said: "A little drunk is better than dead."
Dark Matter in reply to Philip H on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointThere are bad ideas on both sides, both sides can correctly point to the others' and say that they'r…
Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025There is no benefit to trying to cozy up to Trump and Co., example one trillion: New Jersey Governor…
North in reply to Philip H on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointRed states build a lot more infrastructure, housing and such development compared to their Blue stat…
North on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointFreddie has always had this squeamishness about YIMBY’s that I think stems from the fact that he, in…
Saul Degraw in reply to Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025And he has more available but this was expected.
Dark Matter in reply to CJColucci on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025I asked Google's AI the history of that word/medical-phrase. ...gained prominence in the mid-20th ce…
Philip H in reply to DensityDuck on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointWhat pray tell do you think the Right in the US is correct about? I mean Democrats borrowed the righ…
Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025Welp. I guess he has now had his due process. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5361208/mahmoud-k…
CJColucci in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025I'm not sure about that. I'm older than RFK, Jr., and I remember when I was in 8th grade and homeroo…