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2024-01-22T12:05:09-04:00

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The Big Circus at Mummy Mountain

Last updated on: January 22, 2024 at 12:05 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole (1951) effects a miracle. Its protagonist, Charles Tatum (Kirk Douglas), is a low-down scoundrel, a reporter (but I repeat myself) fired from eleven positions across nearly every American market. His crimes run the gamut from boozing to adultery, though what’s never gotten him fired is his eye for scandal and his talent for embellishment. Now, he finds himself him Albuquerque, working for a newsman whose office is plastered with signs that remind reporters: “TELL... Read more

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2024-01-17T09:43:54-04:00

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Yakuza Talk Business like Everybody Else

Last updated on: January 17, 2024 at 9:43 am By Chase Padusniak

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Life is filled with mundane, almost invisible negotiations. Some are external: who is going to take the dog out? Does this shirt look nice? What’s the timeline on getting this done? Who’s going to send the email? Did you remember to order the cat litter? If not, I will. Others, shaded, internal: did I leave the candle burning? When will I have time to pick up the dry cleaning? Am I busy that day? Do I want to tell them... Read more

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2024-01-10T15:32:47-04:00

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What is This Quintessence of Dust?

Last updated on: January 10, 2024 at 3:32 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Ten years ago, two friends and I holed up in a cabin in Woolwine, VA, a town whose claims-to-fame are three covered bridges (one of which was destroyed by a flood in 2015). We hailed from suburban New Jersey. At least two of us called red sauce “gravy.” Poorly planned, as a trip composed of late-teen and 20-year-olds would be, we arrived during a frigid, barren winter. Aside from getting found out the first time we stopped for a hot... Read more

2024-01-02T16:42:27-04:00

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Wrestling with Fate

Last updated on: January 2, 2024 at 4:42 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Curses are a nasty business and generational ones infinitely more so. It’s easy to call a catastrophe or two bad luck, but when enough ill has befallen you over a short enough period of time, it won’t be long before you start calling Eugene from Hey Arnold! (1996-2004) fortunate. Today, we call this natural enough reaction “depression” or “generational trauma,” but these more enlightened monikers were not available or only in their infancies in the long-haired 80s and 90s, when... Read more

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2023-12-28T18:53:19-04:00

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In the Theater of Ghosts

Last updated on: December 28, 2023 at 6:53 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Trying to write about Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander (1982) leaves me feeling a bit like Moses coming down from Horeb (or Sinai; take your pick). It blinds me, reduces me to ash and dirt and filth. The movie says what it says. Any attempt to reduce it to mere words is a betrayal, a bit of flim-flam best left to a monograph, if left to anything at all. Yet I’ve got this silly promise, an engine for self-improvement (or... Read more

2023-12-19T16:53:37-04:00

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Yinzer Vampirism

Last updated on: December 19, 2023 at 4:53 pm By Chase Padusniak

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George A. Romero’s Martin (1977) does for the vampire film what Night of the Living Dead (1968) did for the zombie flick. Here, there is demystification. Just as Romero’s more famous films avoid Haitian witch doctors and talismans with mystical powers, so does Martin reject any of those old, bloodsucking stereotypes. Martin (John Amplas) himself spends hours calling into a radio show, laughing at the idea that he has a seductive hypnotic stare, that garlic can stop him in his... Read more

2023-12-11T17:35:55-04:00

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Holding Over for the Holidays

Last updated on: December 11, 2023 at 5:35 pm By Chase Padusniak

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“Holding Over,” I gather, is what boarding schoolers call getting stuck on campus during a break. Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers (2023) concerns two people in just that situation: an ancient civilizations teacher named Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti) and a kind-hearted rebellious student Angus Tully (Dominic Sessa). Bleak as the premise and the wintry weather of the Christmastide Massachusetts setting may be, this movie is a heartwarming, energizing watch, a tale as old as time: two people who can barely stand... Read more

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2023-12-08T14:04:15-04:00

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Alferd Packer and the Bloody Bunch

Last updated on: December 8, 2023 at 2:04 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Before there was South Park (1997-Present) there was Cannibal! The Musical (1993), Trey Parker’s directorial debut while still a film student at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Distributed by beloved cheapo gore-purveying Lloyd Kaufman’s Troma Entertainment, Cannibal is a gem of student filmmaking (not that that’s a high bar). Here is a land of contrasts: avant-garde filmmaker (and apparently the only faculty member who encouraged the film’s production) Stan Brakhage has a cameo alongside flesh-hungry ghouls and an upbeat... Read more

2023-12-06T11:10:33-04:00

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Rubbing Salt in the Wound

Last updated on: December 6, 2023 at 11:10 am By Chase Padusniak

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I’ll do my best to stop this from becoming a screed. Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn (2023) is a fun movie rooted in tried material. For its first 90 minutes, I was engaged, laughing, oo-ing, ah-ing, and even staring in shock. This tale of a beleaguered scholarship student and nerd named Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) who strikes up a lucky friendship with an aristocratic Oxford collegemate, Felix (Jacob Elordi), kept me on my feet. The movie’s beginning presents Ollie as a crestfallen... Read more

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2023-11-27T18:27:37-04:00

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War Economy for the Occupied

Last updated on: November 27, 2023 at 6:27 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Liliana Cavani’s The Skin (1981) only has 13 user reviews on IMDb, three of which are from American soldiers who played extras in the film (or their children). None of the military once-overs deal with its content, and at least one recounts how grunts who saw the movie upon release spent its runtime Where’s Waldoing themselves. I cannot imagine a more powerful indication of the film’s success. It sets out to show the realities of Neapolitan life under Allied... Read more

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