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2024-10-29T13:54:51-04:00

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House: Show Me the Way to Go Home

Last updated on: October 29, 2024 at 1:54 pm By Chase Padusniak

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When I was TA’ing a course on American Television, several students told me their favorite show was Friends (1994-2004). I found this fact perplexing both because many of them were just born as the series went off the air and because, if they insisted on a 90s sitcom, Seinfeld (1989-1998) is the clearly superior choice. Matters made more sense when they clarified that “favorite” really meant “comfort.” It soothed them. Falling asleep? Put on Friends. Hanging out with, uh, friends? Put... Read more

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2024-10-22T11:44:06-04:00

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Dark Water: The J-Horror of My Youth

Last updated on: October 22, 2024 at 11:44 am By Chase Padusniak

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Like most kids of a certain age, I went to Blockbuster often. I’d beg my dad to drive me over there after a long day at work and rent games I shouldn’t have been playing. Same goes for movies. As much as I enjoyed taking over Vice City and learning about serial killers reanimated as gingerbread men, few of these early incursions touched my regular life. One did. Sitting in my grandmother’s apartment with a close friend, we played our... Read more

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2024-10-13T08:41:46-04:00

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Joker 2: Joke’s on You

Last updated on: October 13, 2024 at 8:41 am By Chase Padusniak

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I will fight a pitiful rearguard action. Usually, nothing could be braver than skirmishing with a more powerful foe, shielding what remains of your comrades from certain death, accepting your own end in the process. That takes courage. But announcing that you plan to fight a rearguard action is less glamorous business. I’m admitting it’s over before I even start. Instead of waving a white flag, I’m taking off all my gear and shrieking “come and get some!” That... Read more

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2024-10-07T16:32:50-04:00

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The Exorcist: If Evil’s Real, Then What?

Last updated on: October 7, 2024 at 4:32 pm By Chase Padusniak

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The first time I watched William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973) I became sluggish. Who’s to say if I fidgeted too? It’s been too long. I’m far removed from the days when I consumed every classic movie with reckless abandon, total disregard for when it came out, who directed it, what it was trying to do. None of that mattered to me. To this day, I can’t tell you a single fact about High Noon (1952), barring two things: 1) I’ve... Read more

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2024-10-07T14:32:05-04:00

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Megalopolis, or the Old Man’s Fever Dream

Last updated on: October 7, 2024 at 2:32 pm By Chase Padusniak

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There is no getting around it: Megalopolis (2024) is an elderly man’s fever dream. Its psychedelic transitions, flat dialogue, bizarre acting, and milquetoast politics polymerize into a whole both mysteriously personal and entirely legible. It is a fable set in faux-contemporary New York with “Make New Rome Great Again” signs and superficial invocations of the Catilinarian Conspiracy. Characters have names like “Cicero” and “Crassus.” Signs for the New York Stock Exchange are still visible. Yet, none of these allusions go... Read more

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2024-09-24T09:15:49-04:00

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Empire Records: At the Heart of Gen X

Last updated on: September 24, 2024 at 9:15 am By Chase Padusniak

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Empire Records (1995) is a cult hit. Having been born in 1993, I missed out on the phenomenon. In preparation for seeing the stage-musical adaptation of the Allan Moyle film, I decided to check it out. It’s fun in its way. Teen comedies are, well, for teens. And I can imagine enjoying this movie in a right-place-right-time sort of way. I’d wager the musical would be better (the movie never leans into its song choices). But I had to miss... Read more

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2024-09-13T14:17:59-04:00

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Hoffman’s Capote Deserved the Oscar

Last updated on: September 13, 2024 at 2:17 pm By Chase Padusniak

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My dive into Rochester’s own Laurence Olivier continues, this time with Bennett Miller’s Capote (2005). I’d put it off for some time for the obvious reason: it received five Oscar nods and won Hoffman an Academy Award for Best Actor. It’s a biopic. I remembered the trailer where he spoke in a half-helium caricature of a dead twentieth-century gossip. Being frank, I feared seeing PSH reduced to a single role, a once-in-a-lifetime bit of Oscar bait to the detriment of... Read more

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2024-09-09T10:42:02-04:00

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AfrAId of What?

Last updated on: September 9, 2024 at 10:42 am By Chase Padusniak

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The critics are wrong again. Or at least, the critics who aren’t me. Christopher Weitz’s AfrAId (2024) has few friends. Rogerebert.com’s Peter Sobczynski savages what he terms “a film that is so awful in so many ways.” Shall we count them, Peter? Users haven’t proven much kinder. Big ideas, but alas, poorly executed—so goes the standard lament. Why did I have so much fun watching it then? AfrAId offered me one of the best theater-going experiences of the year. I... Read more

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2024-09-03T17:54:15-04:00

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The Savages’ Ravages

Last updated on: September 3, 2024 at 5:54 pm By Chase Padusniak

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It’s ten years since the death. Not my mother, who’s been dead longer (13 years). Not my grandmother. She’s been gone about two years now. Philip Seymour Hoffman, the phenom. It’s been ten long years. His is the only celebrity death I can remember publicly crying about. Norm Macdonald hit during lockdown. That one would’ve been best kept to myself anyway. And, as a kid, I was too incurious and provincial to have many other heroes. KoRn? None of them... Read more

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The Savages

2024-08-26T17:28:23-04:00

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Lesser Bergman?

Last updated on: August 26, 2024 at 5:28 pm By Chase Padusniak

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After a week of travel and sickness, this will be more an exhortation than a review. Even now, I’m sniffling and coughing. Never mind the deadlines on the horizon. I had the pleasure of seeing Ingmar Bergman’s Hour of the Wolf (1968). It’s unfair. It’s unfair that Bergman seems capable of making a masterful example of any conceivable genre of film. Here, we have a phenomenal horror film. Hour of the Wolf is about a couple, an artist and his... Read more

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