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Down the rabbit hole with Adult Swim’s Tender Touches (Tender Touches, Adult Swim/Cartoon Network, 2017)
“Who puts truck nuts on a Dodge Shadow?” Curtis I watched this with no prior knowledge, and it was a ride. I couldn’t (and still can’t) figure out if it is anti-humor, bad improv, intentionally bad improv, a product of pandemic Zoom recordings and accompanying variable microphone levels, narratively veering towards incest, all of the…
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NO RETURN NO RETURN it’s a Yellowjackets post (Yellowjackets, Showtime, 2021)
New additions to Yellowjackets!!! Elijah Wood as a citizen detective (a role he was previously terrific in in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, itself a fantastic show that was unfortunately cut short due to Max Landis’ inability to keep it in his fucking pants) And Lauren Ambrose, (slowly driving me towards bisexuality performance after performance)…
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It’s Morbin’ time (Morbius, Marvel/Columbia Pictures, 2022)
I just watched Morbius. I liked it. It doesn’t justify what it is. I feel like the timeline with comic book movies went nerd shit -> brief sweet spot -> “capeshit.” Everything besides the new Spider-Man movies wants to tell you why it’s culturally relevant and deserving of your attention. It always comes off as…
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Everyone was beautiful and nothing hurt (Top Gun, Paramount Pictures, 1986 and Top Gun: Maverick, Paramount Pictures, 2022)
Over the weekend I saw Top Gun: Maverick (at the Air & Space Museum annex IMAX, no less). SO MANY THOUGHTS. One, I had never seen the first Top Gun before save for ten minutes at my cousins’ house during a family barbecue sometime in the mid-nineties. You know the barbecue protocol where an adult…
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I can overlook a lot of flaws when your lightsaber doubles as a racing wheel for Mario Kart (Obi-Wan Kenobi, Lucasfilm, 2022)
I am a savant. Even under 5 pounds of Kryolan I recognized Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Grand Inceptor as Peter Quinn from Homeland. Of course I did, you can see those cheekbones from space. Or from earth, because they’re in space. My only problem now is that Star Wars villain voice is mowing down my boner faster…