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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Pride Month: Stay on Board: The Leo Baker Story

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Stay on Board: The Leo Baker Story checked a number of boxes for me as my third weekly viewing of trans movies during Pride Month: 1) It...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Cheating on a movie theater, using its own popcorn

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I had to say two things that were inspired by my viewing of How to Train Your Dragon on Friday night, but I think you'll agree my diatr...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

I might have seen this movie just for its poster

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Actually, Australian director Sean Byrne has good credibility as a horror director from his previous film  The Loved Ones (2009), so I was ...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

How to Train Your Dragon strikes me as unrealistic

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Now wait just a minute here. That title is a joke, yes, but it's revealing a real truth underneath.  Of course a movie in which dragons ...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Pride Month: Funeral Parade of Roses

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When I decided to focus on trans movies for my four Pride Month viewings in June, I figured I'd be limiting myself to movies from the la...
Sunday, June 8, 2025

Domhnall Gleeson: From everywhere to nowhere

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Sorry, the title of this post sounds a bit like the title of a biopic. I don't like to make you think of biopics unless I absolutely hav...
Thursday, June 5, 2025

Pride Month: Runs in the Family

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Welcome back for Year 3 of my Pride Month series, in which I watch four LGBTQI+ movies in June, one per week, and tell you about them here. ...
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Understanding Editing: From Here to Eternity

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This is the sixth in my 2025 monthly series in which I alternate winners of the best editing Oscar I have seen with those I haven't seen...
Monday, June 2, 2025

The Four Lads (Not They Might Be Giants)

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Here's a bit of a leftover from when I watched Mona Lisa Smile on Thursday night. I had always thought -- had no reason not to think --...
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Accelerated parenting coincidences

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Sick day #3.  Or is it #4? Does Thursday night count? Anyway, yesterday was the day I got tried of long form content. I watched as much base...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Seattle Mariners coincidences

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If I wrote a blog that was just about movie-related coincidences, would you still read it? Well anyway, here's one more. Yesterday I got...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Mo coincidences

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Think of that "Mo" like in Spike Lee's Mo Better Blues , though as you will see there's a reason I chose those particular ...
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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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