Author: Chuck
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One Thing I Like About One Battle After Another
One Battle After Another is full of outstanding performances and virtuosic, genuinely daring filmmaking. I just wish more of it had connected with me.
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One Thing I Like About Dead of Winter
Almost certainly the only review of the Emma Thompson thriller that compares it to Paddington
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Martyrs to Degradation
Making sense of the process of turning off the noise without losing the core of what you’re trying to protect
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Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Any Minute Now
Two tunes that take forever to get started and frankly are better for it
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Vast and Trunkless Legs of Stone
The people pumping up the generative AI bubble are so lazy that they’ve skipped over a crucial part of the whole pitch
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Cinematic Smackdown: The Tragedy of Macbeth vs True Grit
What happens when Joel Coen brings the full force of his filmmaking skills to an adaptation
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Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: F-f-f-Foolin’ the Rain
Two tangentially-related tunes from my totally hardcore adolescence
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Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Point/Counter-point: Why Were We Born?
Two tangentially related tunes asking the big questions
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Ride through mansions of glory on happiness machines
Mario Kart World and the joy of false nostalgia
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One Thing I Like About The Roses
The Roses is a much lighter and funnier adaptation of a story that doesn’t lose its edge by choosing to be sincere
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The only way to begin is by beginning
A fan letter to Dropout for showing how you don’t have to give up your core values to be successful