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Tokyo Godfathers: A Christmas Miracle

I had a bad week. I mean a really bad one. This was a Stroczek...

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Irma, Sweet Irma

I’m flabbergasted Irma la Douce (1963) isn’t better known. Sure, as a Billy Wilder picture...

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Teach It Phenomenology!

It may come as a surprise to some Halloween (1978) fans that John Carpenter’s debut...

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May 01, 2023

Hate the Player, Love the Game

Dungeon and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) crystallizes just about everything about moviemaking in our...

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February 21, 2023

Flesh, Suburbia, and Agent Orange

Bob Balaban. The name’s enough really. If I had seen it on a page before...

February 17, 2023

Thirty, Flirty, and Lagging Behind

Right now I’m precepting a course on American Television. The truth is that my favorite...

February 12, 2023

Recasting the Medieval Rom Com

Pedro Almodóvar’s Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989) is not a film for today....

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January 29, 2023

Norm!

When we found out Norm Macdonald died, my wife and I set our hearts on...

January 09, 2023

The Whole Who Stole the SATs Angle

Sometime in the summer of 2009 I opened video on-demand as I played World of...

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October 01, 2022

Everybody’s Got Theirs

I saw Kevin Smith’s Clerks III (2022) the first night it was in theaters. I...

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September 30, 2022

Share a Can of Wine with Me?

Mark Proksch is great. So great, in fact, that I, jealous man that I am,...

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August 04, 2022

Hallmark’s Manic Pixie Dream Girl

Now I finally know why all the videos I had to watch in class in...

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July 18, 2022

Tammy Does T-Rex

Tammy and the T-Rex (1994) is a B-movie done well and under immense pressure. Maybe...

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June 20, 2022

If Ray Liotta’s Her Ex, Get Out of Dodge

It’s a little late to eulogize Ray Liotta. He died three weeks ago.  And yet...

June 14, 2022

Slummin’ It Sitcom

No better time than another energy crisis to revisit Tamara Jenkins’ Slums of Beverly Hills...

June 12, 2022

When Teen Comedies Go Sad

I’m 28 years old, which means that when I think teen movies, I think sex...

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February 19, 2022

I Blame Society for “I Blame Society”

2020’s I Blame Society leans heavily on the “I,” with producer-writer-director-lead actor, Gillian Wallace Horvat...

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