superheroes & media & hopeful moping
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Is Michael Cohen still just lying? QUITE POSSIBLY. Is he a man who’s done dirty deeds all his life, now feels genuinely bad about it, and wants in some way to make amends? Also possible. Is the 2007 film MICHAEL CLAYTON (starring George Clooney, written and directed by Tony Gilroy) a romanticized movie version of…
I jest, of course, with the false equivalency; some films are meant to spawn sequels and some aren’t. There probably will never be a ROMA II or a RETURN OF THE BLACKkKLANSMAN. It is all but certain there will be a BLACK PANTHER 2, and provided that the world doesn’t blow up + Ryan Coogler…
1) Authentic music appreciation. Look, Britney Spears can’t possibly enjoy performing “Baby One More Time” anymore, because she’s sung that one a trillion one more times in her life. I believe she no longer feels the same way about it. But the person who karaokes “Baby One More Time,” perhaps, still genuinely loves that song. They’ve performed…
To be fair, it’s a really limited genre, but it’s also no contest: MULAN is by far the most progressive-minded cel-animated Disney Princess film, while also performing its essential sedative-hypnotic function on your child’s developing emotional vocabulary. (POCAHONTAS argues for a distant second, but the underlying genocide story is so far our of Disney’s natural…
(An aubade, traditionally, is a poem of leaving, or parting, particularly in the early morning.) ANXIOUS AUBADE XII When I see someone approaching whom I can’t read or recognize,I refer to the mantra of my stripper friend.She recites a pep-talk of self-weaponizationfor a person of average strength.Her professional naked person’s psalm goes like this:(I may be…
