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Bugonia (2025)

I’ll be honest: I’ve spent the better part of a decade dodging Yorgos Lanthimos movies.

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Site Update

Some incremental improvements to The Goods

Happy almost-spring, friends.

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Review

Rear Window (1954)

Cinema is twenty-four pictures per second with synchronized sound, and somehow it builds vast universes inside our imaginations.

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Review

42nd Street (1933)

Sometimes movies of great historical import, turning points in the development of the medium, are tough to sit through.

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Review

The Last Five Years (2014)

In the late ‘90s, musical playwright Jason Robert Brown married an actress named Terri O’Neill.

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Review

The Housemaid (2025)

It might just be my undying love for Freaks and Geeks, but I’ll basically always show up for a Paul Feig joint

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Podcast Episode

Podcast Episode: Mary Poppins (1964) / Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) – Talkin’ Poppins

Dan and Brian continue their Musical Decades theme month with a look at two Disney live action-animation hybrid films

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Podcast Rating Review

The Princess Bride (1987)

Rob Reiner and William Goldman baked a little magic trick into The Princess Bride that I don’t think I fully appreciated as a kid

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Podcast Episode

Podcast Episode: 42nd Street (1933) / An American in Paris (1951) (ft. Hunter Allen) – Beyond the proscenium

Dan and Brian invite film critic and musical cinema lover Hunter Allen from Kinemalogue to join as they kick off a new theme month

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Persuasion (2007)

Since I responded very powerfully to Emma (2020) a few years ago, I’ve gradually become a Jane Austen appreciator.