In the attention economy, celebrity is both the means and the ends.
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Lurker (2025)
Author: Dan Stalcup
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Hedda (2025)
Hedda is a movie I can easily imagine a small subset of viewers declaring the best of the year, and I am very sure I am not one of those people.
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The Red Balloon (1956)
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more poetic movie than The Red Balloon, Albert Lamorisse’s 34-minute daydream.
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Frankenstein (2025)
Guillermo del Toro has finally dragged his dream project Frankenstein across the finish line, a decades-in-the-making adaptation that arrives with the weight of cinema prestige and awards expectations on its sewn-together shoulders.
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Straight Up (2019)
Rejoice: an exciting new cinematic voice.
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Community – Pilot (S01E01)
I was a senior in college and a devotee of NBC’s Thursday night programming in September 2009 when Community premiered.
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Griffin in Summer (2025)
It takes a certain intestinal fortitude to be a true coming-of-age movie die-hard.
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This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse (1967)
At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul ends with Coffin Joe’s death, but when has a villain’s demise ever prevented a horror sequel?
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Gaslight (1944)
Remember when Merriam-Webster crowned “gaslighting” the word of the year in 2022?
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Once (2007)
A piece of trivia that always makes me smile: at the 80th Academy Awards, my beloved Enchanted somehow earned three of the five Best Song nominations.