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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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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...
Apr 9, 20212 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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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...
Mar 26, 20211 min read
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Madeline (1998)
Precocious girl performs antics to prevent her boarding school from closing down. Suitably cute, moderately funny, with both types of...
Mar 19, 20211 min read
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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...
Mar 12, 20211 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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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...
Feb 26, 20212 min read
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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...
Feb 19, 20212 min read
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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...
Feb 12, 20211 min read
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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...
Feb 5, 20211 min read
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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...
Jan 29, 20211 min read
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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...
Jan 22, 20212 min read
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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...
Jan 15, 20211 min read
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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...
Jan 8, 20213 min read
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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...
Jan 1, 20211 min read
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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...
Dec 25, 20201 min read
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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...
Dec 18, 20202 min read
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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...
Dec 11, 20201 min read
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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...
Dec 4, 20203 min read
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