Nostalgia is a tricky lens through which to view the past, especially pop culture. A movie or a show that we grew up with carries much more emotional cache than something we just stumbled across on Hulu at 4pm on a Thursday. “Star Wars” is a perfect example: For some people (me included), the original […]
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Film Shorts Week of May 12, 2022
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE THE BAD GUYS: Sam Rockwell as an anti-hero wolf who, along with his team of thieves, starts pretending to be a good guy in order to eventually get away with bad guy stuff. With a voice cast featuring Marc Maron, Zazie Beetz, Craig Robinson, Richard Ayoade, Awkwafina […]
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Get Weird With It
Doctor Strange takes a shot at the metaverse
MINOR MARVEL SPOILERS AHOY As a life-long science fiction and comic book nerd, the idea of the multi-verse hasn’t been new to me since I was a kid, but Marvel is doubling down on the concept with Phase Four of the MCU. With “Loki,” we got a look at all the different variants of the […]
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May the Source Be With You: Cowboys, Catfishing and Champagne
May edition of things for your eyes and ears
As this very mellow winter slowly comes to an end, I want to give a shout out to all my specific temperature peoples that don’t do well in freezing weather or sweltering hot weather. Either; instead only ever truly comfortable right around 67 degrees in the sun with a mild breeze. Don’t let anyone mock […]
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It’s All Happening
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Sorry, I’m gonna date myself real quick. One of the only times I ever skipped school was March 31 of my senior year when I took off during lunch to go to the first showing of “The Matrix” at my local theater. Yeah, I was a real troublemaker. I went into that movie expecting some […]
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Weed Between the Lines
Building a new stoner movie canon
I‘ve said it before, and I know I’ll say it again: We need better stoner movies. For the last three 4/20’s in a row, I’ve been trying to come up with a new and improved stoner canon, something better than a random Cheech and Chong movie or “Half Baked,” smarter and more brain expandy than […]
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Tabula Rasa
Memoria Seeks to Wake Us Up
How much of who we are is based on the memories and moments that have imprinted on us since birth? I sometimes wonder if I woke up tomorrow completely tabula rasa, would I find my way back to loving the same movies, the same music, the same people, or would I end up being some […]
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A Vampire and A Witch Walk into a Theater
The trials and tribulations of the double feature
There’s something so purely timeless to me about a good old-fashioned double feature. I don’t mean like at the drive-in where it’s a specially curated two-fer of films that are thematically connected or are perfectly paired with each other. Don’t get me wrong…those are great, but there’s something beautiful about seeing two movies just because […]
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May the Source Be With You
Oscars, Science and Cringe for your monthly roundup of things for your ears and eyes
It’s crazy we’re already a quarter of the way through the year. I always thought it was a cliche to say time flies as you get older, but that might be the most accurate statement of my entire life. Every day feels like it’s three hours long and by the time I’m fully awake and […]
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Pats on the Back for Everyone
Jared predicts the Oscar winners
There’s a reason why the ratings for the Oscars have kept going down over the last few years. A lot of that has to do with the fact that critics and audiences rarely agree on what constitutes a great film anymore. Just pick any movie on Rotten Tomatoes and compare the critics’ score with the […]
