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Tiny Furniture (2010, Lena Dunham)
“I saw that your dyslexic stripper video got like 400 hits!” An inventively well-shot movie with mostly static camera, the opposite of the handicam mumblecore thing I’d expected. Apparently most people...
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The Innkeepers (2011, Ti West)
It’s a nice change that Ti West makes old-fashioned, slow-moving, simply-plotted horror films, but I think he goes too far in that direction. I didn’t like House of the Devil either, but at least the...
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TV 2014: New Shows and Old
Girls season 1 (2012) “I don’t want to freak you out, but I think I might be the voice of my generation… or at least a voice… of a generation.” I loved this. Most comedy shows look sloppy, like Parks...
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Misc Shorts, Q2 2015
World of Tomorrow (2015, Don Hertzfeldt) Emily Prime is contacted by her third-generation clone, discussing memory, robots, love and life in the outernet of the future. Only 16 minutes long but I...
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Girls season 3 (2014)
“Fedoras are worse than genocide.” It’s starting to get rather sad-sacky for a comedy, isn’t it? There’s even an assisted-suicide storyline. I took less pleasure than usual in watching the four girls...
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TV Watched Since Summer 2016
Last left off with the Master of None spring roundup, and besides the shows below I’ve also watched a couple miniseries, some Black Mirror and all of Neon Genesis Evangelion since then. It’s been a...
View ArticleOnce Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019 Quentin Tarantino)
Lena Dunham was a Manson cultist! Aha, the ex-boyfriend of Sharon Tate is played by Emile Hirsch – I’ve seen a bunch of his movies (including some great ones) but I never recognize him. Same goes for...
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