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Dad, husband, librarian, music nerd, comic book collector, dog lover, liberal, movie lover, horror fan.
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It’s like Squid Game. They are all dumb and greedy enough to think that when it’s over they’ll be on top, not realizing only one person wins and everyone else dies.
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One thing that struck me really hard is that, even during a dictatorship, life goes on. People still go to the beach and teenagers drive around in cars playing loud music, smoking weed, it's just that sometimes scary helicopters fly overhead and sometimes you get stopped at a military roadblock.
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Nixon won in a genuine landslide in 1972 (49 states, over 60% of the vote) and had a mandate if any president ever did. Still, less than 2 years later, Republican Senators had enough principle to tell him to resign. Now, Congressional Republicans who know better cower in fear before Trump's mandate.
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Of course he's probably only doing this because he holds a grudge against some guy who owns a copper mine. But still.
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he Substance – If the Academy was going to nominate a horror movie, why this and not “Nosferatu”? I wasn’t bothered by the really gross body horror scenes (I’m a big Cronenberg fan), and it was some very good stuff through the first two thirds, but it degenerates into stupidity in the final act.
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Conclave – A smart, superbly acted drama about the politicking around the selection of a new pope. It’s a fascinating look into a very closed off and mysterious world, and Ralph Fiennes is just magnificent. Timmy C. will probably win the Oscar for Best Actor, but Fiennes’ performance is better.
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Anora – It's about a Brooklyn stripper who gets involved with the rich son of a Russian oligarch. The first 40 minutes of it had so many stripping and sex scenes that it felt like softcore porn. When his family objects to their relationship, it gets going and there’s some funny and touching stuff.
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Wicked – I’m not a big musical fan, but I generally enjoyed this. Cynthia Erivo’s acting was fantastic and her singing was amazing. My biggest problem was the run time. It’s the first half of the play and it was 2 hrs. 40 minutes. Some scenes just dragged and it turns out that they added material.
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A Complete Unknown – I really enjoyed this. Very good musical performances, and Timmy C. does a great job of capturing how Dylan talked and behaved back then as well as his burning ambition. My only criticism is that if I know too much about the subject, I can only enjoy a biopic so much.
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Dune Part Two – a very good adaptation of a difficult to adapt novel. It walks the line between the weird spiritual stuff and the sci fi action, and does a good job of expressing one of the novel’s main themes, that it’s dangerous to put your faith in messianic figures. I liked it, didn’t love it.
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15 years on, Elon Musk spent over a quarter of a billion dollars to get Trump elected and is in the process of dismantling the federal government, provoking a constitutional crisis that is going to decide if we remain a democratic constitutional republic.
Sometimes I fucking hate being right.
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Play “Funhouse” at them at full volume and tell them that he set the standard for punk rock frontmen.
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Ice T-Bone
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I mean, pick a lane already.
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Here's a YouTube link to the full movie, because it's not streaming anywhere: www.youtube.com/watch?v=piiU...
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Most importantly for me, he wrote the screenplay for my favorite movie ever, the brilliant dark comedy, "Little Murders." www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LsH...
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A history professor of mine once told our class that the attempted mutiny at Valley Forge had nothing to do with the cold. It was because they were going to cut the whiskey ration from a quart and a half a day to just a quart.
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-9. The 12 Days run from Christmas to January 5.
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It’s better than dealing with gruel stans.
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Foggy Notion - The Velvet Underground
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True. My wife and I spotted it when we watched it with our kid when he was little. I like it better than The Lion King.