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Apr 16, 20213 min read

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...

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Apr 9, 20212 min read

Princess Castle Quest: Puzzles For The Whole Family To Rage At

Puzzles, puzzles, everywhere! This game is a mouth-sound-fueled, top-down sprite-based adventure to find gems. You navigate through a...

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Apr 2, 20214 min read

Titus Groan

Peake starts his masterpiece with what will become his hallmark: a seemingly unending stream of descriptive text. Whether or not you...

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Mar 26, 20211 min read

Mandela Effect: Dry Scifi

Like both the Mandela Effect and simulation theory which both factor into its premise, rarely compelling in its concept once you get into...

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Mar 19, 20211 min read

Madeline (1998)

Precocious girl performs antics to prevent her boarding school from closing down. Suitably cute, moderately funny, with both types of...

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Mar 12, 20211 min read

Child’s Play

Prepare to throw all logic out the window on this one. The plot mechanics are ill-defined. You knew that just based on the premise. But...

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Mar 5, 20212 min read

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,...

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Feb 26, 20212 min read

The Brand New Testament: Delightfully Irreverent

The premise: in addition to being both a misanthrope and a sadist, God (the Christian one) is an abusive husband and father. The bulk of...

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Feb 19, 20212 min read

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

“Piranesi is an exquisite puzzle box,” a quote from David Mitchell claims on the dust jacket of my copy. Based partly on this quote, some...

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Feb 12, 20211 min read

Black Box: Not Catchy Enough

Black Box is a competent psychological horror film that slowly stews. It’s a bit on the slow side, and I wouldn’t suggest it for those...

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Feb 5, 20211 min read

Ballet Shoes: A Spoonful of Sugar

Ballet Shoes is a movie about a London family struggling during the Great Depression. It centers around the three adopted girls who are...

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Jan 29, 20211 min read

Addams Family (2019): It’s Okay

It’s cute. It’s reasonably funny. It’s got all the characters you remember. It’s fine. Plot: 4 Characters: 5 Themes: 5 Spectacle: 7...

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Jan 22, 20212 min read

The Art of Self Defense: A Thesis On Toxic Masculinity

I'll be honest. I wasn't sure if this movie was brilliant or just brilliantly stupid at first. But, every couple scenes or so The Art of...

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Jan 15, 20211 min read

Four Lions: A Terrorism Comedy

A small group of would-be terrorists who are rejected by a larger terrorist group decide to hatch a plan of their own. Now there are a...

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Jan 8, 20213 min read

Eye of the World: About Three Times As Many Words As Needed

Eye of the World is the first book in the incredibly long Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. It is long, meandering, cartoonish at...

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Jan 1, 20211 min read

Cabin in the Woods: A Metacommentary

I don’t think there’s much for me to say about Cabin in the Woods that someone smarter hasn’t already said. It manages to be a...

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Dec 25, 20201 min read

Lovebirds: A Romantic Murder Comedy

A couple who are drifting apart accidentally become accessories to a murder. Two people of color, they spend the rest of the film running...

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Dec 18, 20202 min read

The Little Hours: The Longest Rape Joke

The Little Hours has an amazing cast, an interesting thematic bent, and occasionally strong writing. Certainly there are funny scenes...

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Dec 11, 20201 min read

Leo Da Vinci: Mission Mona Lisa

This is a tired, predictable, dumb, formula children’s film. It doesn’t look especially good, the dubbing is awkward, and not a single...

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Dec 4, 20203 min read

Fe@rless: Hello, Fellow Kids

The premise: A supervillain wants to kidnap a superhero’s babies in order to siphon their powers. A couple of high school kids end up...

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