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  • Marginally Maudlin McCarthyism

    Marginally Maudlin McCarthyism

    Nothing as exciting as communist blacklisting, I’m afraid…just this guy. If there’s one thing I enjoy more than almost anything else, it’s a good memoir, biography, or autobiography.  The more salacious the better.  Reading about the lives of famous and infamous people brings me an extreme amount of pleasure and always has; I think it…

  • The horrendous, un-mockable “Anora.” It’s just so, so awful.

    The horrendous, un-mockable “Anora.” It’s just so, so awful.

    Gurl, you didn’t earn it…or maybe you did. I don’t even know anymore. I’m several months behind on addressing last year’s “Anora,” but who cares?  It isn’t like it is, or ever was, a movie of the times.  It’s not like this confounding cinematic release is a contemporary, popular, cool, hip, with-it, groovy, bitchin’, of-the-moment…

  • 2024 Horrors: The Final Chapter

    2024 Horrors: The Final Chapter

    Me, watching “Kill List” for the fourteenth time. Released in 2012, it’s in my Top Five of all-time favourite scary movies. It’s late on a soggy Sunday afternoon and I’m delaying my bubble bath so I can write this.  Let’s just finish this off, shall we?   There have only been a small handful of topics…