Found Laying Around the Shop

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Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Take care of your daughters or he will

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When it comes to sheer unadulterated cool in cinema no one has been able to touch Nicolas Winding Refn since  Only God Forgives  (2013, Nico...
Tuesday, July 28, 2026

PEN 15 club: pen CIL club OR "clutch" and "hold" are synonyms, that's weird

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My endless onward march of consumption / acquisition ... marches ... onward, I guess: I have copped a new special friend! It is a Caran ...
Sunday, July 19, 2026

O sing ye muse of a face a fleet a war a man a thought a trick a trick to break the walls of Troy and burn it screaming to the ground because the hand of victory shrouds the bard’s legends and makes blind beggars of us all

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Now that it has finally washed up on our shores   The Odyssey   (2026, Christopher Nolan) it turns out was left there as a gift to be prized...
Thursday, July 02, 2026

Reunited and It Feels So Good AKA What To Do When You Lose Your Bullet Journal

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(Look what they did to my beautiful boy (they sent him back to me, safe and sound and with a fast, simple process)) And but so but I'...
Wednesday, July 01, 2026

Because YOU Demanded It! Nibbling Around the Edges of Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew (in 2026)

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Home sick today, I thought to revisit a paper bag on the shelf, which turned out to contain a pile of comics I couldn't resist a couple...

Inland Empire plot analysis

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I saw   Inland Empire   (2006, David Lynch) at the Paramount Theater in Austin, TX twenty years ago. And have rewatched it quite often. Even...
Wednesday, June 03, 2026

Under the Silver Lake plot analysis

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The key to understanding   Under the Silver Lake   (2018, David Robert Mitchell) is to approach it for what it is a guy in LA susceptible to...
Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Synecdoche, New York plot analysis

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We can extract its meaning from its title in   Synecdoche, New York   (2008, Charlie Kaufman) the film stands in for the play stands in for ...
Monday, June 01, 2026

Eternal Sunshine plot analysis

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind  (2004, Michel Gondry) is an excruciatingly painful confrontational indictment against our weakness an...
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Honey badgers

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Sum it up I’d say the lasting impact of Kiyoshi Kurosawa films are the ones that delve into evil.   My latest take on  Cloud  (2024, Kiyoshi...