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The sequel continues the precedent set by the original of being more clever and insightful than these movies need to be
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I have no gifts to bring, apart from these two tunes that are not even a little bit about Christmas
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This surprisingly charming movie about choosing the perfect afterlife makes a love triangle where you want to see everyone win
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Starting December with the goal of finding the most barely-Christmas-related songs possible
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Revisiting a movie that I still think is just okay, and how it just keeps getting more relevant
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Wake Up Dead Man is a solid murder mystery that in the Knives Out tradition, has a lot to say about Our Current Moment. The most interesting twist is the idea that Benoit Blanc isn’t right about everything. (No significant spoilers)
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Thoughts after playing the infuriatingly excellent deduction game at the worst possible time. (No significant spoilers)
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Her Story really is a work of genius, treating interactive fiction like molecular gastronomy. (No significant spoilers, but a pretty long read)
One Thing I Like
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The sequel continues the precedent set by the original of being more clever and insightful than these movies need to be
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This surprisingly charming movie about choosing the perfect afterlife makes a love triangle where you want to see everyone win
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Wake Up Dead Man is a solid murder mystery that in the Knives Out tradition, has a lot to say about Our Current Moment. The most interesting twist is the idea that Benoit Blanc isn’t right about everything. (No significant spoilers)
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer
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I have no gifts to bring, apart from these two tunes that are not even a little bit about Christmas
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Starting December with the goal of finding the most barely-Christmas-related songs possible
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Two tunes from when I first heard about Janelle Monáe and had my mind blown right out of my skull
Books
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My thoughts on the 1961 film The Innocents and how hard it is to find a good old-fashioned haunting
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Jason Rekulak’s thriller about a young woman hired as nanny to a bright child whose drawings reveal a dark presence hiding in the house
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Josh Winning’s slasher novel about a camp for a celebrity who’s in danger of being canceled… PERMANENTLY