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I never watched much mumblecore because I can’t hear people when they mumble. It’s always been my issue with the genre.

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New MOVIES AND CHAOS Tariffs and Butts US isolationism and how this dog-eat-dog coveting has translated to the programming world and film biz in general. Plus, thoughts on new releases Mickey 17 and The Monkey, post-Oscars, creating new work in an age of nostalgia and way more. shorturl.at/LeXe5

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When I was a kid I got a book out of the school library that told me the Titanic sank because there was a mummy onboard. It’s wild your movie can gross $2-billion and get 13 Oscar nominations without even mentioning this fact.

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I miss the Octomom, when things were simple.

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I’m happy to learn I’d been mishearing that song I thought was about bestiality. It doesn’t say “Love is a Cattle Field.”

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What’s up with online conservatives wanting this Snow White movie to tank so hard? I’m not saying it’ll be good, but it’s a weirdly personal and pathological hangup for them.

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The ending of Argento’s OPERA where she voice-overs about how much she loves nature and insects is the ultimate film litmus test. It’s easy to reject it or take it as irony, but taken sincerely it’s transcendental - breaking the barrier of earthly understanding that makes movies like religion.

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I’m watching the 1925 THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and the first title card mentions that it’s set “over medieval torture chambers, hidden dungeons, long forgotten.” I think EMILY IN PARIS would have been more warmly received if it also said this at the start.

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Your imagination intuits 4D from a flat 2D image. 3D images throw everything at you and there’s less of your senses involved.

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After renaming the Gulf of Mexico, I worry that Trump’s long game is to get Canadian Avril Lavigne to change her name to the more American sounding April the Vine.

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Diversity improves cities. Growing up, the only international restaurants in Halifax were Chinese and Italian, and the only Asian movie we got was THE TAO OF STEVE.

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It’s always crazy to me how some people view kindness as a sign of weakness and despair rather than strength and resolution. They will face my wrath.

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I mentioned this on someone else’s podcast but when I went to see a packed matinee screening of ANORA a family of five was sitting in front of me and walked out in the first shot.

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I don’t think those of us under sixty really consider that the title song of BLUE VELVET is a teen idol pop ballad, released 23 years earlier. This would be like if the edgiest movie of 2025 is titled SK8ER BOI and plays that song throughout.

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One way the Letterboxd era is better than the IMDB era is ppl seem marginally smarter about movies now. It used to be that the worst thing a movie could be is unrealistic, and now there’s more prioritization of style and messaging over concern about whether the SPEED bus could really make that jump.

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Editing is half of directing. I often say this.

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I feel we’ve collectively repressed that era when the Oscars had no host and everyone was like, “This is the absolute most boring shit I’ve ever seen, but at least no one’s said anything potentially offensive.”

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I don’t think Andrew Garfield needs to be doing this Judi Dench accent to be taken seriously.

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“The wind is not a colour. It’s see-through.” - My review of POCAHONTAS

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AMERICAN MOVIE has thoroughly corrupted the way I pronounce “coven.” It seems permanent at this point.

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The top level countries are places like India, Italy, China and Iran because they created their own religions. In times of trouble, this is what Canada needs to do. I just don’t know if our deity should be Joey Jeremiah or Burt Raccoon.

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I know victimhood is chic. But it’s fucking crazy how the Presidential Administration is going around complaining that everyone’s taking advantage of them and giving them undue emotional labour. I don’t remember that happening before.

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I sometimes miss the "adjective + non-material noun" era of movies, like NARROW MARGIN, FINAL ANALYSIS, CONSIDERED APPRAISAL, WIDE MEMORY and BASIC INSTINCT. OK, I made some of those up.

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It’s messed up that kangaroos are jacked. They’re already pretty weird animals and that seems like a step too far.

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“We are in desperate need of some non-subtle artists.” I don’t usually advertise my monologues that kick off our podcast episodes, but I’ve been hearing a few responses on this, and it’s a good one. shorturl.at/pG2vq

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I just went to see a two-hour K-pop concert film with my K-pop obsessed friend (who is a 45-year-old straight white man named Simon) and I had to tell him to stop singing.

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The qualifications for having a YouTube reaction channel are pretty loose. A) You’re in the top 0.5% of attractive people on Earth. B) You’ve never seen any movies before.

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The only real pretentiousness is closed-mindedness. What’s often lost when someone prefers a black and white three-hour Croatian film more than DEADPOOL is they draw no distinction between high art and low art and the person disbelieving them does. Anti-intellectualism is rampant.

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Everything we said was gonna happen is happening. “But nooo it isn’t neoliberal capitalism that’s the problem. It worked great back in 1996. We just need to make APOLLO 13 again.”

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It’s not a fancy hotel unless it takes a while to figure out how to turn on the shower.

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There has never been a more aggressive film title than HOWLING II: YOUR SISTER IS A WEREWOLF.

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I just heard someone refer to his Dominos Coupon Receptacle as a "mailbox" lmao

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Years after the mostly forgotten David Manning scandal (a fake critic invented to give positive quotes on movie ads) we’re probably not too far from studios/filmmakers creating AI critics to rave about their films. But will they be Tomatometer-approved?

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Americans saying they suddenly don’t care about hockey now that they lost are like how there’d be that kid in hide-and-seek who’d say he wasn’t playing as soon as you found him. Fool, then why are you under the car?!

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One of the scariest parts of the video game INDIANA JONES AND THE GREAT CIRCLE is when the Nazis learn how to open doors, like Velociraptors.

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What the hell are wealthy conservatives so angry about? “I know I’m worth a billion dollars but it’s hard to appreciate life knowing that on some college campus there is a WOKE MOB.”

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I just think if I were one of the stupidest men alive and also President of the United States, I wouldn’t give a bunch of speeches about how only people with the highest IQs should have jobs.

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