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I went to see Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker when it came out — too many times. I had social commitments I couldn’t reneg without feeling weird about it; plus, that overall sense that even bad Star Wars is…
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2022
The year the pandemic finally got me. The year I finally got out of the country. The year I took refuge. The year I found my white whale. The year I saw the sun set on the Nile. The year…
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The best films of 2022
I wonder when they’ll get around to doing a Letterboxd embed for WordPress. Well, until then, here are my twenty favourite films of the year, including category nominations. These will go into my OFCS ballot this week.
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Samantha
I have given a name to my pain, and it is Samantha I don’t know why Samantha. The referent most often in my head, since Samantha became persistent enough to deserve naming, is of course Samantha Micelli from Who’s The…
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Quitter
I’ve started a project — actually, four projects — in various stages of formfulness, and the result is, anytime I sit down to write, it’s more opportune to work on one of them than to write anything internet-facing — which…
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The Ramen Dream
I started having the ramen dream, I am fairly sure, during the pandemic. If not, it would have started fairly close-to. Certainly, I was having the ramen dream sometime after the second time I visited Japan, in March/April 2019. Equally…
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