The Audient
Friday, December 5, 2025

Asian racquet sports double feature

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I was going to possibly choose Lurker as the second half of my double feature at the cinema on Wednesday, since I've heard great things...
Monday, December 1, 2025

A change of projector locale

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I didn't originally think I would "take advantage" of my wife being out of town in any way, except maybe leaving some dishes u...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

The annual Netflix movie I'm blocked from streaming

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Tonight I am going to an advanced screening of Nouvelle Vague . Why, you ask, should I have to go to an advanced screening of a movie that...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Margot Kidder plays French Canadian

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I've continued watching the movies Quentin Tarantino discusses in Cinema Speculation , and I haven't had to jam too many of them in ...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

The silent rebellion of trying to thwart the inevitable

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I've become contemplative again about firstly the state of film criticism, and secondly my relationship to it. Very contemplative. And m...
Monday, November 17, 2025

Playdate but not Play Dirty

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One of the easiest annual methods of goosing my movie count is to watch everything the streamers offer me. In fact, depending on how you wan...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

I have regrets

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There was simply no way I was going to like Wicked as much on the second viewing. I watched it again last night, realizing only yesterday t...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Friendship is rare

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Whenever I had thought about finally seeing the Andrew DeYoung-directed Tim Robinson vehicle Friendship , which has gone through a series of...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

To spoil or not to spoil?

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As you would know from this post , I have recently begun reading Quentin Tarantino's Cinema Speculation , a sort-of memoir in which he m...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Characters who play the same song over and over again

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I was going to call this post "Characters I don't understand doing weird things," but I thought that would make me seem even m...
Sunday, November 9, 2025

The precise quality of a Thea Sharrock movie

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If you don't know who Thea Sharrock is, it wouldn't surprise me. She has directed four features, two of which I've seen ( Me Bef...
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Saturday, November 8, 2025

How I got 19 days ahead of last year's pace

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When I closed off my 2024 list of movies ranked at a record 177 films, I exhaled massively. Not only is it exhausting to watch that many mov...
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Full-time IT guy, part-time film critic. And yes, I do realize that adds up to one-and-a-half "times."
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