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Partial Reviews: Magic Mike
Boring. Surprisingly skewed so far up the male gaze’s ass that I wonder why it was marketed toward women. So boring. Felt like a male...
May 26, 20231 min read
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Magic for Liars: Contemporary Fantastic Noir
Sarah Gailey constructs a fun, engaging magical mystery in Magic for Liars. It’s a classic whodunit, set in a magical high school, with a...
May 12, 20231 min read
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco: Identity in a Box
Two Black dudes squat in an old house in a gentrified neighborhood. Character posing is extraordinary, colors vibrant, frames often...
May 5, 20231 min read
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Dead Collections: Vampiric Tale of Love
Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman is a speculative romance novel where the main character is afflicted with vampirism: here, a...
Apr 14, 20231 min read
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FINNA: Multiversal Traveling With Your Ex
The way many spec fiction authors write, this novella could easily have been a four-hundred page tome that opens dozens of subplots and...
Apr 7, 20232 min read
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The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Tome That Overflows With Meaning
Benny Oh and his mother, Annabelle, deal with the loss of his father in very different ways. Their mourning is the fabric that the rest...
Mar 24, 20232 min read
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Everything Everywhere All At Once
Multiverse-hopping mayhem, riotous comedy, inventive action; Everything Everywhere All At Once may not be a film for everyone, but for...
Mar 3, 20231 min read
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Kill Your Darlings (2013)
Well, it’s not boring. I was sucked into Allen Ginsberg’s (Daniel Radcliffe) obsessive emotional spiral around magnetic but dysfunctional...
Sep 17, 20211 min read
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101 Dalmatians (1961): Long Past Expiration
So, the film starts out with a dog wistfully watching passersby in an awful sequence where women’s bodies are compared to those of their...
Aug 30, 20211 min read
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The Sisters Brothers: A Sibling Extravaganza
When I saw that there was a western movie starring John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix as leads, I had to convince myself that I was still...
Jul 23, 20212 min read
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Hard Eight
Slow and contemplative, Hard Eight follows a couple of career gamblers through a series of revealing decisions. The cast is great,...
Jul 16, 20211 min read
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Bottle Rocket Hits Its Target
But the explosion is very muted. Owen and Luke Wilson play longtime friends and petty crooks who decide to perform a robbery. Their...
Jul 11, 20211 min read
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Fringe: A Show Worth Observing
Fringe is a police procedural where the crisis-of-the-episode is always a sci-fi mystery. A murderer turns out to be a man-porcupine...
Jun 25, 20212 min read
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Tales From the Loop
Episodes of Loop are slow, contemplative works of irony that share a continuity but no real overarching story. As such, you could...
Jun 11, 20211 min read
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Dumbo (2019), Still Just As Dumb
Only half as scattered and aimless as the original, but it makes up for it by being as long and boring as it can manage. The film is just...
Jun 4, 20211 min read
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Lovecraft Country (Season 1--of hopefully many)
Immaculate in both its conception and execution, Lovecraft Country pairs captivating spectacle with thematic depth. At its heart, the...
May 28, 20211 min read
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Like Father: A 98-Minute Commercial
I’ve heard this film described as a romantic comedy, which is strange, because the central relationship is between a young business exec...
May 7, 20211 min read
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Dhalgren: the Poem For Which You Had To Be There
abrasions through which blood slowly wept. Days or years, seconds or months: the gouges did not go away. Oozing and clotting and cracking...
Apr 16, 20213 min read
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Titus Groan
Peake starts his masterpiece with what will become his hallmark: a seemingly unending stream of descriptive text. Whether or not you...
Apr 2, 20214 min read
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: the Bad Beginning
The series’s reputation precedes it, and I’m sure the reader likely has some opinion about the property before hearing mine. After all,...
Mar 5, 20212 min read
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