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Hundreds of Beavers 2022
Hundreds of Beavers is like a feature-length, live action Looney Tune. It takes a familiar setting - the North American woods in winter - and a familiar scenario - a hunter trying to catch wild animals - and elaborates them out to a complete narrative. If a typical Looney Tunes cartoon is like a short story, Hundreds of Beavers is like a novel, using familiar forms of physical comedy and repeated iterations of the same jokes, but allowing the protagonist,…
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Blue Jean 2022
"Fight or flight?" gym teacher Jean asks her students, just before chucking a dodge ball at them, only a few minutes into Blue Jean, in a short scene that functions as the film's thesis statement. "It's instinct," she tells them, as one student flinches away and another reaches out to catch the ball, "your body reacts before you can think about it."
When the pivotal moment comes, later in the film, Jean doesn't truly act without time to consider, but…
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Barbie 2023
Greta Gerwig and I are just about the same age. I was struck by the possibility right after watching Barbie, and confirmed it with a quick glance a her bio. At first, I thought this was an unimportant observation, a bit of trivia that wouldn't really matter to how anyone else thought about the film. But it's a thought that has stayed with me, and has become an important lens for how I, at least, think about Barbie.
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Dirty Pair: Project Eden 1986
I really liked the Dirty Pair series. It was on originally when I was a kid, but I never saw it, never even heard of it until recently. There's something kind of thrilling about finding something that was contemporary with the stuff you grew up with, but that you never knew about before. It's like finding another room hidden in your childhood house, a surprise that opens up what you thought was a closed off space.
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