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Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Pride Month: Stonewall (1996)

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I can say with pretty good confidence that this is the first series I've ever done on The Audient , of any length, where two films had t...
Tuesday, June 23, 2026

The Buster Brown horror movie you didn't know you needed

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I sometimes call my younger son "Buster Brown," as a synonym for "buddy" or "sport" or "champ." As i...
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Monday, June 22, 2026

I'm not sure if I know what Jack O'Connell looks like

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Jack O'Connell has been part of our movies for more than 20 years. Including some prominent ones, such as last year's presumed runne...
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Sunday, June 21, 2026

Resonant themes, boring movie

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We got our upstairs carpet professionally cleaned last week. This is exactly the sort of thing I would never do. I might live in a house for...
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Friday, June 19, 2026

Pixar proxy

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I had hoped to see Toy Story 5 last night on its opening night here in Australia. That shouldn't be confused for an excessive amount of...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Pride Month: Before Stonewall

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Once my first two movies made it clear that I was winnowing down my focus for this year's Pride Month viewings from the history of the g...
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Saturday, June 13, 2026

Emily Blunt, then and now

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The release of The Devil Wears Prada 2 earlier this year reminded me that this is the 20th anniversary of our awareness of Emily Blunt. The...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Pride Month: Stonewall

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I'm back on track with my original intention for this year's Pride Month theme thanks to a little thing called a VPN. Forgive the st...
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Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Eric Roberts, the hardest working man in show business

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If you were to ask me why I keep reading the mostly very stupid answers to questions by people on Quora, which get sent to me in multiple-ti...
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Monday, June 8, 2026

My first Letterboxd rental

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I was going to say "And possibly my last," except I worked out the problem. You may not think of Letterboxd as a source of video r...
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Saturday, June 6, 2026

Our fascination with fictitious pop megastars

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The subsection of recent films dealing with pop megastars -- usually female but not always -- is becoming sort of cottage industry unto itse...
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Friday, June 5, 2026

Streak, interrupted

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I don't know if I'd have any way of accurately checking this -- I could laboriously go through Letterboxd, back to 2002 -- but I...
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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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