Category: Arts & Entertainment
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One Thing I Like About Mickey 17
The science fiction comedy about an expendable space colonist and his clones feels like a smarter and subtler movie is running just below the surface.
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Literacy 2025: Book 6: Moxyland
Lauren Beukes’s “post-cyberpunk” thriller about a society that crushes people with class division and convenience
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The Kobo Libra Colour, or, In Praise of Increasingly Necessary Devices
First impressions of a new color e-ink ebook reader, along with an explanation of why I got it
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Literacy 2025: Book 5: Starter Villain
John Scalzi’s satire of billionaire tech bros as James Bond-style supervillains
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Literacy 2025: Book 4: Born to be Posthumous
Mark Dery’s comprehensive biography of the writer and artist Edward Gorey
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The Only Thing I Liked About The Monkey
The new horror movie based on a Stephen King short story reminded me of when I first read the story, and not in a good way. (Spoilers for the movie)
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Literacy 2025: Book 3: A Man Lay Dead
Ngaio Marsh’s surprisingly modern entry into detective fiction
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One Thing I Love About Paddington in Peru
I adored the third installment in the Paddington movies, where everyone seems to be so happy to be there that the joy is contagious
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Perfect, No Notes
My long-running frustration with finding the perfect tablet has reached the point where I’m blaming the tech industry as a whole
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One Thing I Like About Captain America: Brave New World
I’m still happy that so many of Hollywood’s resources are being put towards weird genre mashups
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Let me in now and it can be nice
Overthinking the idea of Longlegs as being horror movie drag. Lots of spoilers!
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One Thing I Kind of Like About Longlegs
Longlegs is absolutely a case of style over substance, but that’s not actually a bad thing. Mild spoilers for the movie.