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Monday, September 07, 2020

A Fresh Faced Protagonist

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Tenet   (2020, Christopher Nolan) is an action movie expressive of a personal style of filmmaking that never gets in the way of its commitme...
Tuesday, September 01, 2020

How to Cartoon for Comedy Comma Perfectly

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OR: Fair Use for Fun, for Fun Games, and for Absolutely No Profit Cartooning is like sculpture: an art of subtraction. By ruthlessly but...

Greater wretchedness

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Monday, August 31, 2020

Coming home is terrible, whether the dog licks your face or not. Coming home is terribly lonely, whether you have a wife or just a wife shaped loneliness waiting for you.

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“Other animals live in the present. Humans cannot, so they invented hope.”   I’m Thinking of Ending Things  (2020, Charlie Kaufman) is a com...
Sunday, August 30, 2020

Hello, San Dimas

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  Sure, they’re a couple of idiots, but yet again their quest out does itself and challenges the duo with an adventure worthy of getting bac...
Saturday, August 29, 2020

Submitted for the approval of the midnight society:

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The New Mutants  (2020, Josh Boone) is a YA horror movie constructed in a way that unifies the collective inner conflicts of its plural prot...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Gamera (1995)

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Blue skies and fire.   Directed by Shusuke Kaneko.
Sunday, August 02, 2020

DISCOVERING DRAMATIC DEVICES no. 1

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A device unique to  Watchmen , Dr. Manhattan calmly expounding on the fate of someone close to him (or all of humanity) from an omniscient p...
Friday, July 17, 2020

HEAVY TUNES: Records I Listened to This Week or So, As of July 17, 2020

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June 30, 2020 Wand, Golem Shredder. Right up there with Plum ! A Winged Victory for the Sullen, A Winged Victory for the Sullen Was I awa...
Friday, June 26, 2020

HEAVY TUNES: Records I Listened to The Last Couple Days, as of June 26, 2020

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June 21 Deltron 3030, Event 2 Minutemen, Introducing the Minutemen Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home Phoebe Bridgers, Stranger in ...