Everyone here is very game and I found the satire of geopolitical ineptitude intermittently really funny, but I kinda thought this was gonna get even more batshit than it ultimately did. At the very least, I figured it would lean into genre way more. Still, got a big kick out of this ending on the day being saved by a speech filled with nothing but ridiculous non-sequiturs and empty platitudes.
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The Outrun 2024
I typically find addiction dramas to be pretty trite and formulaic, often feeling like acting exercises even at their most sincere. That said, Saoirse Ronan is one of our best young actors, so the floor is pretty high here. This definitely still suffers from the same pitfalls, but it did feel a bit more sensitive than they typically do.
I’m glad it ended where it did with a lovely little grace note, rather than 90 seconds earlier. I get what…
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SNL50: The Homecoming Concert 2025
For whatever reason when Robyn and David Byrne started to play “This Must Be The Place” I audibly said “oh!” and felt my breath hitch while my eyes welled up.
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Blue Velvet 1986
Caught this at the Music Box Theatre last night. Beautiful theatre, and I was initially excited that it was a young packed crowd in there and they were an engaged audience (mostly because I mourn the days of the 24 hour horror/sci fi marathons at the Drexel) but that devolved into uncomfortable hollering and laughter at inopportune moments. It’s one thing to get a kick out of Kyle Mclachlan’s innocent delivery of some wild dialogue. It’s entirely another to ever…
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