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An Investigation into Halloween’s Satanic Origins

Diving Deeper into Halloween, Satan, and the Allegations Made in Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal Let’s start with one thing: I…

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16Oct 202131 Aug 2023
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Every Large Adult Son on Succession, Ranked

Who is Succession’s Number One Boy? (My Version of Those “Every Succession Character, Ranked” Articles) This is my guide to…

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Gregg Turkington, Tim Heidecker, Ant-Man & Metafiction

Or: Is the MCU a Meta Narrative Within the On Cinema at the Cinema Universe? Note: this article has been…

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Chris Rock’s Top Five is the Movie You Need to Watch Before the Oscars

25 Feb 201626 Feb 2016
As of the publishing of this post, the 88th annual Academy Awards are two days away. This means that a lot of people are either a) predicting who will win…
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The Real Ending of Breaking Bad: No One is Okay

22 Feb 201622 Feb 2016
With Saul Goodman once again gracing our televisions as of last week, it's a good time to reflect on Breaking Bad. Specifically, on its final episode, the polarizing finale entitled "Felina."…
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If the Candidates Were Characters in a ’90s Action Movie: A 2016 Election Cheat Sheet

4 Feb 201615 Feb 2016
Iowa is behind us. That's the good news. We don't have to hear about Iowa anymore. The bad news is that this whole charade has nearly another year left, and…
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How Being an NFL Fan is Like Being a Woody Allen Fan

1 Feb 201615 Feb 2016
With the Super Bowl approaching, it comes time to defend it. In some circles, this isn't a challenge. In others, you have to justify how you can watch something with…
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How to Finally Become a David Bowie Fan

1 Feb 201615 Feb 2016
It's a strange thing when a celebrity dies. Some people mourn for days or weeks or months. Others feel ostracized when it's someone whose work they didn't know, outside the…
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Why I’m Done Seeing Tarantino Films in the Theater

15 Jan 201615 Feb 2016
This isn't a review of The Hateful Eight. I'll sum up my opinion of it in one sentence: It's not his worst movie or his best movie, and I only…
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The Most Important Ross Geller Analysis of 2015

31 Dec 201515 Feb 2016
With the year ending, it's time to write and reflect about something that I had never thought about until 2015: the Friends character Ross Geller, portrayed by David Schwimmer. During…
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The 15 Most Under-Appreciated Films of the Last 15 Years

29 Dec 201515 Feb 2016
  If you hadn't noticed: it's list season. And while I don't believe in lists-for-the-sake-of-lists, I've been meaning to put together a list of the films that I think more…
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What We Failed to Learn About Terrorism from The Dark Knight

5 Dec 201517 Feb 2018
Or, "Stop Calling Them Gunmen and Start Calling Them Terrorists" One of the most notable elements of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy is that, despite being made by a British writer…
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Happy Black Friday 2015 from David Foster Wallace

3 Dec 201525 Nov 2016
A week ago yesterday - on Wednesday, November 25 - I came across a deal on Amazon: a free digital download of the SD version of the David Foster Wallace…

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