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May the Source Be With You

Podcasts, streams and shows, August edition

I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer. I’ve noticed things seem to be almost completely back to normal even though the Delta variant has started rearing its ugly head. But they’re not normal. I know it’s easier to think they are, but there are still many bare shelves at grocery stores and a lot of […]

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Godzilla vs. Kong

Whoever wins, we also kinda win too, I guess.

Remember in “Lethal Weapon” how Mel Gibson would bet his co-workers he could get himself out of a straitjacket with no help? So then he would dislocate his shoulder and get out of the straitjacket, but then have to put the shoulder back into place by banging it into a filing cabinet or something? It’s […]

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Immigrant Song

“Minari” makes the personal universal

I’ve said it a thousand times in these pages over the years, but the most important thing that cinema can do for the world is create empathyโ€”not just for different cultures and religions and people, but for ourselves and the struggles we think we’re fighting in the dark.

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