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2022-08-17T18:49:51-04:00

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Straight Eye for the Queer Gal for the Straight Guy

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 6:49 pm By Chase Padusniak

Forgive me, reader, for I have sinned—I’m reviewing another Kevin Smith movie, the one that, last week, I said a paragraph or two couldn’t explain. Turns out I still think what I thought almost seven days ago (crazy, right?) and I figure it’s about time to lay out why Chasing Amy (1997) is up there with Something Wild (1986) and Boys and Girls (2000) among my favorite of the post-Golden Age romantic comedies (that last one really, really requires some... Read more

Politics and Religion

2022-08-17T18:50:02-04:00

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The Politics of Kevin Smith’s Townieverse

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 6:50 pm By Chase Padusniak

I’m in a peculiar position. I left New Jersey for college (went all the way to New England, I did), studied abroad in the UK, lived in Germany on-and-off, traveled across Europe, and, even during my homecoming, came back to do my PhD at a university that—as far as most Jersey residents are concerned—isn’t really in New Jersey. And yet here I am. I live in the house where I grew up, several degrees stronger, a lot poorer, married, navigating... Read more

Politics and Religion

2022-08-17T18:50:43-04:00

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Old-Fashioned Ghoulish Fun

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 6:50 pm By Chase Padusniak

A few weeks ago I chanced upon a video interview with a real, live Appalachian family affected by inbreeding—right down to being sheltered and protected by the local community. My first thought was “I thought that was just a movie trope.” My next: “I think I’m going to swear off hill people incest gore porn for a while.” Way too sad and humanizing to do anything else. Tropes can take a beating; people less so. Though I put off watching... Read more

Religious Art

2022-08-17T18:50:58-04:00

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Fear of Fear, or How to Make a TV Movie

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 6:50 pm By Chase Padusniak

What makes for a good TV movie? Can such a thing exist? On Rotten Tomatoes, for example, over half of the “Top 100 Television Movies” are certified rotten. In the later-mid-twentieth century the Europeans seem to have briefly believed in such a spotted elephant, giving us gems like Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage (1973) and R.W Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980). But neither of those is really a “movie,” more like a limited series. It seems we’re doomed to smiling... Read more

Home and Religion

2022-08-17T18:51:13-04:00

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When Trauma Was Goofy

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 6:51 pm By Chase Padusniak

I’m 28 and I’m already nostalgic for the earliest years of my life. On the one hand, this seems an obvious effect of our age of accelerated change—the Trump years (not all that long ago after all) feel like a blur, and the internet trudges on, introducing each micro-generation to a new bevy of cultural symbols and mediations. Facebook didn’t achieve popularity until I was nearly halfway through high school. Internet dating went from strange and pitiful to de... Read more

Religious Art

2022-08-17T18:51:31-04:00

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The Bitter Tears of the Working Class

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 6:51 pm By Chase Padusniak

Have you ever sat down to read a John Updike novel or John Cheever story and asked yourself—”I’m no upper-class WASP. No one in my family talks like this. My parents never had any affairs. And if they did, they didn’t talk about it. What’s the point of this?” Italo-Slavic-American of non-elite stock that I am, I’ve been there. We did a lot of yelling and hugging and threatening one another. I ate buttered Eggo waffles and drank Pepsi for... Read more

Politics and Religion

2022-08-17T18:51:49-04:00

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A Nation of Used Car Dealers, by Used Car Dealers, for Used Car Dealers

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 6:51 pm By Chase Padusniak

A glance at the Rotten Tomatoes reviews of Robert Zemeckis’ Used Cars (1980) about sums up this Milius-and-Spielberg-produced cavalcade of gags. “One of the most underrated comedies of all time. Made in an era when political correctness was challenged and Kurt Russell was at his BEST,” gushes Ian D—5 stars! “There are two women in this movie. They both get molested on screen and the audience is supposed to laugh. I’m sure there are some jokes about molestation that are... Read more

Politics and Religion

2022-08-17T18:52:02-04:00

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Body-Swap Slasher Fails to Freak

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 6:52 pm By Chase Padusniak

When Bo Burnham’s Netflix special, Inside (2021), lamented a year at home and a society gone awry, I lamented my decision to watch. Funny in parts, Inside felt perfect, not because it was just what we needed, but because it was just what we deserved. Funny in parts, Burnham’s feature-length musical dramedy crystallized the limp inadequacy of any resistance to prevailing norms. Every joke boiled down to little more than a pale bony index finger locked onto one target at... Read more

Religious Art

2022-08-17T18:52:14-04:00

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I Blame Society for “I Blame Society”

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 6:52 pm By Chase Padusniak

2020’s I Blame Society leans heavily on the “I,” with producer-writer-director-lead actor, Gillian Wallace Horvat in just about every shot. Its basic steps tread those of other found-footage comedy-murder mockumentaries—deep breath—like Man Bites Dog (1992) and Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006). We meet a psychopathic film director who’s making a movie about the perfect murder—which is, of course, the movie we’re watching—and follow her down a trail of blood. In this case, actually not that much... Read more

Religious Art

2022-08-17T18:52:48-04:00

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Catfish: Five Years On

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 6:52 pm By Chase Padusniak

On September 12, 2016, I published a piece about Catholic Twitter’s most notorious catfish. I explored the way in which that little ecosystem’s then most popular account took us all (and most of all me) for a ride. Those days seem halcyon now—half the people I see posting these days probably don’t even know what I’m talking about. But back then it was a big deal. We’ve moved on. Some recent goings-on led me to read the comments on... Read more

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