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My latest movie review: Licorice Pizza (2021): A Movie Review Paul Thomas Anderson delivers a funny, bold, and adventurous coming-of-age story concerning oddballs in California…jlanternman.medium.com My latest non-cinema related article (scroll down for more recently published): The Unattached Life When it comes to love, can we stay unattached?jlanternman.medium.com Most of my articles are of the movie review or essays-on-cinema variety:

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Jul 18

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

Mar 5

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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The Unattached Life
The Unattached Life

Mar 3

‘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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‘All Around’
‘All Around’

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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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Preying on Fear
Preying on Fear

Feb 19

Licorice Pizza (2021): A Movie Review

Paul Thomas Anderson is a director of unusual creative versatility. He tends to go in radically different directions with each movie, so you never quite know what you’ll get. This element of surprise is part of the fun of going to see his movies. …

Movies

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Licorice Pizza (2021): A Movie Review
Licorice Pizza (2021): A Movie Review

Feb 11

King Richard (2021): A Movie Review

A handful of times a year, movies I don’t have big expectations of blow me away. The element of surprise makes these some of my most memorable cinema trips — ones that immerse and engage when I wasn’t expecting. These movies, as much as ones I anticipate and do live…

Movies

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King Richard (2021): A Movie Review
King Richard (2021): A Movie Review

Feb 7

Belfast (2021): A Movie Review

Belfast is a movie with its heart in the right place. It carries good messages about sectarianism in the context of Northern Ireland, persecution based on faith, and the moral challenges community members are forced to confront when living with a young family in something akin to a civil war…

Movies

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Belfast (2021): A Movie Review
Belfast (2021): A Movie Review

Jan 27

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021): A Movie Review

Good Shakespeare adaptions tend to fall into two camps. They can be theatrically faithful treatments that put the 17th-century plays on screen with reverence, using cinema to add elements not possible on the stage (Macbeth (1948), Orson Welles). …

Movies

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The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021): A Movie Review
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021): A Movie Review

Jan 17

Stop Making It Pretty

A change I decided to make this year is to diversify my writing. Writing on cinema is where I am most confident: I love good cinema, and I enjoy taking part in the “discourse” (blistering rants) about bad cinema, too. I also have some background in the subject — I…

Essay

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Stop Making It Pretty
Stop Making It Pretty
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Cinema, short fiction, essays, and occasional nonsense. Blog: jameslanternman.online.

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