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 […]
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Nostalgia Buttons
Reynolds charms with "The Adam Project"
It feels like a lot of the movies I’ve been writing about lately have been really heavy. Not necessarily depressing, but intense enough to feel like a mix between homework and heavy lifting. So this week I decided I was going to try to watch something that pressed all of my nostalgia buttons; something that […]
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The Bat, The Cat and Riddle Me That
The extremely Dark Knight rises again
“The Batman,” director Matt Reeves’ new reboot of the forever franchise (after Ben Affleck turned in the cape and cowl) answers a question many of us have had for years: what if Batman was super into The Cure? Imagine if a mix of Kurt Cobain and Howard Hughes and you’ll be close to Robert Pattinson’s […]
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May the Source Be With You
March edition: Small towns, Always Sunny and family recipes
Here we are, in the midst of a lovely false spring and the skies are clear, the sun is warm and nothing could possibly go wrong. What’s that you say? Russia is acting squirrelly? Yeah, that makes sense, only in the roaring ’20s would we follow up a planet-wide pandemic with a possible world war. […]
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Leaf of Life
“Faya Dayi” gives us much to chew on
There’s nothing I love more than an underlying current of melancholy floating beneath a film, giving the piece a tone and a texture unlike anything else. As great as a romance or a horror movie can be, if there’s a film that finds that balance of emotional realism and a sadness based in the everyday […]
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Leaf of Life
“Faya Dayi” gives us much to chew on
There’s nothing I love more than an underlying current of melancholy floating beneath a film, giving the piece a tone and a texture unlike anything else. As great as a romance or a horror movie can be, if there’s a film that finds that balance of emotional realism and a sadness based in the everyday […]
