Author Archives: Yours Truly

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I saw that! We rented it after hearing its creators discuss it on an episode of Doug Loves Movies. It sounded very weird. I also remembered that it got terrible reviews from both jackasses and smart people, which I always … Continue reading

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The Trip: A Cock and Bull Story

Well! We went downtown to the fancy Living Room theater where you can get beer and wine and champagne and all kinds of food delivered to you as you recline on a sofa-like seat in a small pleasant screening room. … Continue reading

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An Entry With No Movies Whatsoever But Rather Some Stuff about Hildegard and my Arm Wound

J. Hopper has been completely tearing it/ass up in here, during my amazingly lengthy absence, and I for one salute her and all that she stands for. It is true that I very quite nearly cut off my own arm … Continue reading

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Michael Bay Oral History

Jessica’s buddy has made this totally amazing thing, which is an oral history of Michael Bay cobbled together from various interview quotations from all sorts of people. IT IS FASCINATING. It must have taken forever to put together! Boy I’m … Continue reading

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Sounds Like a Real Rowdy-Dow

We have been watching Childrens’ Hospital and Louie to the exclusion of all other things, even our famed “Avant Garde Wednesdays,” when my old man screens experimental films for me and we discuss them cogently as does the learned class. … Continue reading

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The Sexual Revolution

Why are all those 1960’s avant garde orgy movies so BORING? I honestly want to know. So you have the sexual revolution and everyone’s supposed to have orgies all the time, and then you have the avant garde that’s like … Continue reading

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Bridesmaids Revisited (GET IT?)

All who speak ill of Bridesmaids are fools and traitors and are welcome not upon my doorstep nor bedchamber!!!!! DEATH TO THE BRIDESMAIDS HATERS! I have flung my gauntlet upon the smoking bloodstained earth! I’m so sure you’d rather go … Continue reading

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The Hangover II

I saw the second Hangover movie last night. I didn’t love the first one, but it definitely had its charms (Zach Galifianakis). The second one was, as anticipated, a very lazy re-hashing of the entire plot of the first one. … Continue reading

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Zombies: A (Very Long, Possibly Incoherent) Cultural History

The zombie originated in old-school Haitian voodoo culture, although the trope of the shambling undead stretches so far back into the roots of human history that it probably can’t be traced to a source. I think as soon as we … Continue reading

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Congratulations are in Order

Let us all pause in our relentless movie watching and give thanks for the official legal unioning of our dear beloved co-blogstress Jessica, and Matt, her long-term man friend and father of her tiny crawling baby. Two lovely people made … Continue reading

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