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Kevin McLenithan

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Editor by day. Film critic by night. Internet Puddleglum 24/7.

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Wishing a bout of kidney stones on everyone who worked on this app and everyone who uses it

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If you have actual concrete suggestions for the "any number of things" that someone like Jamelle could be doing instead of his current work, please feel free to list them anytime. Presumably this should be an easy task for you because they are so obvious.

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This is actually a really good point, and the best rebuttal to the "we're not electing a pastor-in-chief" argument. Not that rebuttals make a difference to Trump voters, but still.

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Richard Nixon 1977: When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal. America 1977-2023: What, are you kidding? No way. Roberts Court 2024: Actually Nixon was right, and shouldn't have been in trouble for ordering the Watergate break-in, because orders are by definition official acts.

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If we're doomed to a second, gloves-off Trump administration, the least Biden can do is use today's SCOTUS ruling to make the full heel turn with the six months he has left. Go nuts with executive overreach, why not, you'll lose the election either way!

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Aw beans, really? That was one of the only huge multiplexes in Chicago that I actually liked. Down to just the Landmark Century now, I guess

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If you're looking for some leisurely Sunday-afternoon reading, we've got a new Seeing & Believing for you, where we review JANET PLANET and (one of my more anticipated films of the summer) Jeff Nichols's THE BIKERIDERS:

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terrible fumble to base an entire government on the idea that a Gentleman, sir, would never, under any circumstances...!

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I think it's mostly that everyone who's spent the past six months condescendingly lecturing people with worries/critiques about Biden's fitness for office has suddenly realized just how vulnerable he is, and they're panicking.

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we don't have any booze in the house at the moment, so I guess I'll just empty this entire box of Frosted Mini Wheats directly into my mouth

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Letterboxd also informs me he shot TOWER HEIST and HUDSON HAWK(!)

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Dante Spinotti, maybe? Michael Mann's go-to DP up through the '00s—also has done a few Marvel movies, the Dwayne Johnson HERCULES, and 2010's VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER

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"Pretentious." Too often used as code for "art that expects me to make an effort."

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The Soulsborne games regularly have absolute bangers on their soundtracks. The Ludwig theme from Bloodborne is one of my favorites.

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INSIDE OUT 2 is at its best when it isn't so self-conscious.

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Sam Adams's avatar Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social
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I wrote about how a classical quartet and an extinct songbird made moviegoing feel urgent again.

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It is cool and good that politics has become so divorced from serving the actual needs of average citizens that the political class is now asking computers to guess at what those needs might be

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We don't have an out-and-proud monarchist in the competition yet. We need her to be openly taking kickbacks from King Charles and advocating for a return to British colonial rule so that Gorsuch can go on Fox News to say something like "marriage is all about compromise"

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Because she sincerely holds a lot of leftist views and also sincerely holds Catholic views, including on abortion. Lots of people can't wrap their brains around that one and react to her like she's The Thing trying to hide among all the "real" leftists. "Burn it with fire!"

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would watch, and I don't even like De Palma that much

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HIT MAN is good, but I can't help but wish we could have gotten a Billy Wilder version that leans into the noirish aspects of the story more.

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Every time I read it, it feels like Ishiguro is performing a magic trick. The narrator takes pains to give nothing away, but for the reader he gives everything away.

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My answer would be THE REMAINS OF THE DAY. An absolutely flawless novel in every way.

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me, calling George Miller at 2:48 am Australian time: "WHERE are my Mad Max DINOSAURS, old man!"

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Yeah, but those are Dinosaur Rules. Totally different ballgame

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There is that one part at the end where the bottom half of Immortan Joe's face gets ripped right off and you kind of see it. It cuts away fast, though.

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That's my favorite cinematic adaptation of Murakami, but BURNING still holds the crown for the movie that feels the *most* like Murakami

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june's avatar june @junlper.bsky.social
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in the future you’ll have to watch an ad before going into life saving surgery at the hospital

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Going to start writing horror short stories based on the things my son says (today: "The walls grow eyes after you turn out the lights")

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They won't insist on public hearings, but don't worry, Democrats already have plans to introduce a resolution naming June 1 "National Civic Responsibility Day," and they will fight to make sure it passes!

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You can't even commit a war crime anymore because of Woke

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It's Clinton 2016 all over again, except that at least Clinton had the excuse that "Trump is no threat" was a mainstream view at the time

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The pleasures of wriggly word salad and frustratingly impotent customer-service, now all in one place!

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Incredible how the tech industry can marshal all that computing power and all those natural and financial resources to approximate the bullshitting prowess of a freshman writing a paper the night before it's due.

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Kieran Healy's avatar Kieran Healy @kjhealy.bsky.social
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I didn’t know half this stuff

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Yep. Huge archival issues. At least some genuinely excellent films like ROMA got a Criterion Collection release to stave off being utterly forgotten if/when the Netflix service collapses.

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One could argue that GOLDFINGER should be your first Connery because it's sort of the archetypal Bond Movie. (Also, that Shirley Bassey title theme!) But FROM RUSSIA... is the better film, imo

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Connery: From Russia with Love Lazenby: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (by default, but it's one of the best Bonds) Moore: The Spy Who Loved Me (my personal fave) Dalton: License to Kill Brosnan: Goldeneye

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Between us we watched almost all of them other than the ones that almost everyone agrees are stinkers, like OCTOPUSSY. I think every actor has a clear best film that you should start with:

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V. curious to know how this experiment turns out. Wade and I did a Bond retrospective way back when, which was my first time seeing the pre-Brosnan films.

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