The Audient
Thursday, June 30, 2022

The fight for a life

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This is my final Roe v. Wade post. For now. I think. Last night I rented another abortion-themed movie from iTunes, this one for $6.99 rathe...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

When a reprehensible pro-lifer infiltrated Hollywood

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In the continuation of The Audient 's coverage of Roe v. Wade ... and reconsidering previous stances ...  I was a lot less harsh than yo...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Ready to vote with my rental dollars now

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Like everyone else -- everyone I want to be associated with, in any case -- I have spent the last few days feeling glum about those corrupt,...
Sunday, June 26, 2022

That hot erotic thriller starring Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow

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Flickchart is known for having a wide variety of alternate posters for its movies, and its algorithm is capable of throwing different ones u...
Saturday, June 25, 2022

Praise as absurd as the movie

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I noticed last night that Dear Evan Hansen had come to Amazon Prime, and because of a perverse sense of wanting to continue looking at this...
Thursday, June 23, 2022

Audient Bollywood: Anand

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This is the sixth in my 2022 monthly series watching Bollywood movies.  After watching Anand , I think I have witnessed the template for hal...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Settling the Scorsese: The Color of Money

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This is the third in a bi-monthly 2022 series watching Martin Scorsese's remaining feature directorial efforts that I haven't seen. ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

So long Joe ... so long me?

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I haven't been keeping up regularly with the KCRW film reviews of Joe Morgenstern, whose reviews appear in print for the Wall Street Jou...
Saturday, June 18, 2022

The omens didn't end up being good ones

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I kept seeing the Boston Celtics pop up in whatever I watched this week. I didn't know they would factor into Hustle , Adam Sandler'...
Friday, June 17, 2022

My 2002 film rankings (in 2002)

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This is the sixth in a 2022 monthly posting of the 12 year-end rankings I completed prior to starting this blog, on the occasion of my 25th ...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

Depressive thoughts and basketball scores

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Saturday night's viewing of I'm Thinking of Ending Things takes me halfway through my 26 number one movies I am rewatching in 2022,...
Saturday, June 11, 2022

The Player at 30

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If there was one film most responsible for taking my recently learned methods of analyzing classic film and applying them to new releases, R...
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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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