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Review

Twinless (2025)

Although it might be my favorite movie of the year, I almost don’t want to review Twinless. I want every viewer to go in with as little knowledge as possible.

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Review

Good Boy (2025)

Good Boy is a slight but fun idea for a film, the kind of shower brainstorm that rarely makes it to the page, let alone the screen.

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Lurker (2025)

In the attention economy, celebrity is both the means and the ends.

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Podcast Episode

Podcast Episode: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) – Attend the tale

Happy Thanksgiving, one and all!

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Review

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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Review

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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Podcast Episode

Podcast Episode: Twinless (2025) – Sweeney odd

Dan and Brian tackle a recent release in James Sweeney’s Twinless.

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Review

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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Review

Straight Up (2019)

Rejoice: an exciting new cinematic voice.

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TV Review

Community – Pilot (S01E01)

I was a senior in college and a devotee of NBC’s Thursday night programming in September 2009 when Community premiered.