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Hundreds of Beavers 2022
I have a kid with ADHD of the sort where he hasn’t watched a feature-length movie in, well, maybe never? because he thinks of something else to do during any slow or challenging parts. It’s how his brain works, whatever. But tonight we put on Beavers—a movie I expected he’d love because it nails so many of his interests, from Fleischer cartoons to handmade props to graphics compositing—and he was glued to it for two hours. Who wouldn’t be? It’s nonstop gags, mood and style evolution, references to previous jokes. It’s perfect.
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Hundreds of Beavers 2022
There’s nothing out there like it: a hand-stitched, laptop-powered, Buster Keaton live action Fleischer looney tunes, like the world’s most elaborate sweded remake from Be Kind Rewind, except it’s wholly original.
This was one of my favorite theatrical experiences of the past decade, even though I saw it in a small theater in Vancouver, WA with six other people I didn’t know. Dozens of times, I muttered so stupid. under my breath, in the best way.
Like The Velvet Underground,…
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Starship Troopers 1997
It's as good an action/sci-fi movie as has ever been made, and on top of it, it's a subversive, complex, yet highly entertaining examination of the cost of social order. It has held up beautifully over the past 15 years, and in retrospect, it's one of the best movies of the 1990s.
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Bo Burnham: Inside 2021
Among a sea of hilarious jokes in this movie, here’s what I personally found the funniest: that the whole marvelous collage of creativity, getting its inspiration from the weight of societal turmoil, personal struggle, global crisis—and oh yeah, an ongoing pandemic lockdown—served as a counterweight and a way to process and a thumb in the eye of all that; but more than this, that it was to my soul a cathartic manifesto against the era’s bankrupt superhero movie machinery that…