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3 days ago

Babylon (2022): A Movie Review

Babylon is 3 hours and 9 minutes long, and would need to be 60 minutes to work. Could it be 60 minutes? Nope. No feature-length film could be. And the way this one shows such an over-sized world, and takes time to saunter and hang-out there, there is no Earthly…

Movie Review

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Babylon (2022): A Movie Review
Babylon (2022): A Movie Review
Movie Review

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Oct 9, 2022

Smile (2022): A Movie Review

Writer/director Parker Finn’s debut feature is a curse/demonic possession movie (in that order, with possession playing a subservient role in the narrative) with primary themes of mental health, trauma, and the cycle of abuse. The plot concerns Rose Cotter (played by Sosie Bacon), a cynical-minded psychiatrist who treats a new…

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Smile (2022): A Movie Review
Smile (2022): A Movie Review

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Oct 5, 2022

Crimes of the Future (2022): A Movie Review

The cinema industry is doing poorly, and buying some food and a drink with your ticket is the best way to support them. That’s where the profits are for the cinema people. I used to smuggle in half-bottles of whisky with friends, and mix them with cinema-bought drinks. The cinemas…

Movie Review

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Crimes of the Future (2022): A Movie Review
Crimes of the Future (2022): A Movie Review
Movie Review

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Sep 24, 2022

Fire of Love (2022): A Movie Review

Great documentaries don’t come along that often. A year without at least one superb fictional film released, destined to be recognised as great once the dust settles, is a strange year. Often, there’s a handful. …

Movie Review

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Fire of Love (2022): A Movie Review
Fire of Love (2022): A Movie Review
Movie Review

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Sep 14, 2022

Navalny (2022): A Movie Review

Navalny prompted me to stop what I was doing, and write about it with a sense of urgency. I love when that happens. It is a documentary with impact. It leaves you feeling clear about things that can’t just be looked up on Google, or consumed through social media. …

Movie Review

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Navalny (2022): A Movie Review
Navalny (2022): A Movie Review
Movie Review

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Sep 8, 2022

‘If I Can Dream’

In my younger years I was a big Elvis Presley fan. Not in the sense of knowing a ton of trivia, reading biographies, or even knowing all that much about the man. The internet was primitive, and I read mostly fiction. I would listen to his music all the time…

Music

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‘If I Can Dream’
‘If I Can Dream’
Music

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Jul 18, 2022

Pig (2021): A Movie Review

Before Pig, my last trip to the cinema was to see The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. In that movie Nicolas Cage plays himself, dialling up all the flamboyant aspects of his acting persona to eleven in a knowingly wacky, introspective, and ludicrous way. That movie is somewhere close to…

Movies

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Pig (2021): A Movie Review
Pig (2021): A Movie Review
Movies

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Mar 5, 2022

The Unattached Life

In buddhism, the second “noble truth” states that suffering is caused by attachment. Taken on its own, it is about recognising the truth of this, whether or not there is anything we can do about it (according to buddhist philosophy there is, but other noble truths handle that). The idea…

Essay

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Essay

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Mar 3, 2022

‘All Around’

They sat in the garden. It was a rare afternoon where the temperature made it pleasant to be outdoors. ‘Where did you go in the war?’ The answer came as a gesture. One hand rising and whirling around. ‘All around.’ It was enough of an answer. Specific place names contained…

Fiction

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Fiction

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Mar 1, 2022

Preying on Fear

An instinct, or compulsion, found throughout the animal kingdom is to prey on animals that display fear. Animals tend to experience fear in the presence of danger, such as predators. Therefore predators can use it as a signal to identify prey. From a predatory viewpoint, animals display fear because they…

Essay

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Essay

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James Lanternman

James Lanternman

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