Recent reviews

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  Midnight Mass 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Oct 2021

  This has to be one of my favorite series of all time. Endearing characters, a captivating story, a really fresh twist on some long-running genre conventions.

  I'll be honest, I didn't see the criticisms about it being "long-winded" until after I'd finished it. The dialogue was, by and large, as engaging to me as some of Tarantino's best work, with the exception of maybe one early monologue where I started to wonder, "Why isn't this other character saying anything back?…

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  PAW Patrol: The Movie 2021

  ★★ Watched 28 Aug 2021

  So, we saw Paw Patrol today. What an experience. I'll probably need to sleep on it to gather my thoughts and figure out where I stand on the whole thing, but for now here are my initial impressions.

  
  First off, the plot moved along at a breakneck pace. At one point, my wife had to take our daughter to the bathroom. When she got back, I said, "Mayor Humdinger turned the subway into a loopdeloop, and now a bunch of…