Never been formally diagnosed for autism or Asperger's myself, but I'm given to understand pretty much everyone in my family pushed for my dad to put me in for diagnosis throughout my entire schooling years, and I do find a lot've kinship in depictions of and interviews with people who are clinically on the spectrum. I actually brought the matter up to my therapist today, while exploring issues with self-constructed moral imperatives, so maybe something can happen in that direction…
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King Dong 2011
Back in 2013, I was a sophomore in college. I'd made friends with some folks living down the hall from me in what was then Aspen Dorm at Northern Arizona University. I'd had connections like this my freshman year, but these visits felt particularly special, since the people I'd made friends with were far more on my wavelength and didn't have other friends from rich families who'd whinge about how they only had three thousand dollars left in their bank…
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Revenge of the Nerds 1984
It took us like twenty minutes to get started proper because I suddenly remembered this movie was shot in Tucson and obsessively ran every opening driving shot through Google Street View in an effort to figure out their exact location on I10. Couldn't quite confirm they took the Speedway exit, the place has been so heavily revamped in the last forty years. There's a Berry Greens just outside the U of A archway these days. Never been, but I have…
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Sleepstalker 1995
Well hey, here's the rare film whose letterboxd entry counters my tendency to omit any kind of plot summary from the review. Lookit the over-detailed blurb up there, or on the relevant page if you're not viewing this from the recent/popular (God willing) reviews section. Tells you all y'need about Sleepstalker. Love it when my convenience is unwittingly taken into consideration.
...although, in honesty, it doesn't tell you much about the laziness in Sleepstalker's consturction. Such is probably inferable by…
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Nezha Conquers the Dragon King 1979
For those not in the know, Nezha is derived from the Hindu figures Nalakubar and Krishna, and is frequently depicted as a feminine boy-child wielding his fire-tipped spear, universe ring, red armillary sash, and riding atop the golden wind fire wheels. His story is told in the twelfth and thirteenth chapters of the 16th century novel Fengshen Yanyi, or Investiture of the Gods, in which he is born as a solid pile of flesh before being released as a fully-formed…
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What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? 2004
This thing is poorly made pseudo-science trash, and probably doesn't deserve a review consisting of anything beyond that statement, but I'm gonna write a few brief thoughts for coherency's sake.
As with Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas, the framework here is not all bad. When they get down to discussing neurochemistry and how your brain is capable of inducing changes within your body without the need for outside stimuli, it's an oversimplified but basically correct take on what happens. They're effectively…
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