Month: November 2025
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Chick Flicks, Broad Comedy, and The Favourite
More thoughts about what The Favourite says and doesn’t say, and how people are unprepared for a movie with three Strong Female Characters (More spoilers)
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The Favourite, or, Sneaking in Tongues
The Favourite is outstanding, taking everything that could make a movie arch or distancing and instead using it to draw us in. (Some spoilers for the end).
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Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: What Planet Is This?!
A train of thought through lands of experimental multilingual chill
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My Voyager Disc
My ongoing quest to let extra-terrestrial intelligence know that I have basic tastes
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One Thing I Like About Bugonia
Bugonia is a surreal black comedy that seems arch and dark but can’t completely disguise its underlying humanity. (No significant spoilers)
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Spooktober Recap and No-Theme November and Onwards
Saying goodbye to Spooktober until next year, and admitting what I really got out of it.
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Ouija: Origin of Evil, or, Kate’s Husband’s Planchette
A last-minute addition to Spooktober 2025 that shouldn’t work yet somehow does (probably because of Mike Flanagan)