Author: Chuck
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Literacy 2025: Book 23: Heads Will Roll
Josh Winning’s slasher novel about a camp for a celebrity who’s in danger of being canceled… PERMANENTLY
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Movie List Monday: Oh, So That’s Why We Have Movies
A list of movies with scenes that taught me why the medium exists in the first place
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One Thing I Like About Weapons
Weapons is so ingeniously structured and so confident in its tone that it feels like something genuinely new. (Spoilers)
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The Tragedy of the Slop
Even with billions of dollars of investment, the miraculous thinking machines can’t answer the simple question “Why can’t we have nice things?”
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Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Happier Together
Two tunes that might be appropriate replacement songs for the movie Together, should the need arise
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Space Bullies Aren’t Cool (One Thing I Like About Predator: Killer of Killers)
Predator: Killer of Killers is a beautifully-animated action movie that challenges my basic sense of media literacy. (Minor spoilers)
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One Thing I Like About Together
The body-horror-as-metaphor-for-codependency movie Together isn’t as bonkers as I’d hoped, but it does some fantastic stuff with familiar horror movie moments
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Lost in the Kayfabe
A video about horror in professional wrestling is like peeking into a whole other culture I know nothing about, but suspect that they might have it all figured out better than I have
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One Thing I Mostly Like About The Naked Gun
The newest version of The Naked Gun can’t live up to the brilliance of Police Squad!, but I appreciate how much it tries
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Being fair to the kids… or some of them, anyway
Pete Buttigieg makes disappointing comments about trans athletes, and I finally get fed up with centrism in politics
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Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Fantastic Foursome
A couple of space-age tracks from Michael Giacchino and a couple of John Williams tracks that (I think) inspired him