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  • 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…

  • Jon Favreau Is A Cinematic Genius

    Jon Favreau Is A Cinematic Genius

    No, really.  Hear me out.  Jon, if you’re reading this–and I assume everyone in Hollywood receives Google alerts for anything containing their name–you outdid yourself with this flick.  Consider this my ode to “Chef.” So, for the rest of us armpit-scratching plebeians: Never heard of this movie?  That’s a shame.  I think it’s on Netflix…