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  • King Dong

    King Dong

    ★★★★★

    Back in 2013, I was a sophomore in college. I'd made friends with some folks living down the hall from me in what was then Aspen Dorm at Northern Arizona University. I'd had connections like this my freshman year, but these visits felt particularly special, since the people I'd made friends with were far more on my wavelength and didn't have other friends from rich families who'd whinge about how they only had three thousand dollars left in their bank…

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  • Doctor Who: The Myth Makers

    Doctor Who: The Myth Makers

    DOCTOR WHO, SEASON 3! Watched from May 24th to June 23rd 2020.

    Everyone's favorite TV show about a little old man with a box big as the universe and hearts to match encountered a particularly rocky patch in season 3, a rocky patch by name of John Wiles. Though none of his four stories are particularly bad, behind the scenes his ascendancy to showrunner after Verity Lambert caused considerable turmoil amongst the cast as he fired Maureen O'Brien, struggled for…

  • History of the Eagles

    History of the Eagles

    Documentary Challenge 2020! Week 24 - a documentary spoofed on Documentary Now!

    ~There's a buncha bullshit goin' down this week~
    ~Couldn't watch the Gentle and Smooth parody episodes like I wanted~
    ~In no mood to do proper paragraphing right now~
    ~So we're just gonna bullet point this thing~
    ~God I hope someone interprets these tildes as an annoyed sing-songy voice~

    -Throughout the first two hours chronicling the Eagles initial rise and six album slate, there's a common thread following the…

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  • City Lights

    City Lights

    ★★★★½

    Film School Drop-Outs 2018! Week 2 Retro - The Silent Comedy!

    Having reflected for the better part of 24 hours before writing this review, I think the funniest thing about Charlie Chapin's Tramp are the moments when you aren't sure whether he's cottoned on or not. Take the spaghetti eating scene for instance, where his expression wavers between disbelief and satisfaction, culminating in a head turn and slow standing up with brows knit... only for it to turn out he's…

  • The Handmaiden

    The Handmaiden

    ★★★★½

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    For this week's entry in Gargus and Adept's Queer Cinema Challenge 2019, let's talk about sex! After all, Park Chan-wook's example of queer Asian film hangs a large portion of its character development on extended, direct depictions of intercourse, so why not talk about sex just as frankly?

    Besides, of the numerous assets The Handmaiden has at play at any given time - Park's command of a wide variety of shooting styles, lighting as a subtle indicator of mood and…