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Cloak and Dagger (1984)!!!

Every year I teach a poetry critique unit, and every year one of the poems that resonates most with the students is Audre Lorde’s “Hanging Fire.” That poem is pure honesty. 

It’s a movie. The characters are made up. They could eat kittens for all I care. 

I wrote about this very thing almost three years ago. Read more

The Mouse and his Child (1977) Read more

I’m so happy for the people of Tampa and Los Angeles who can finally end their championship droughts of... Read more

Pennsylvania - Philadelphia on one end, Pittsburgh on the other, and Kentucky in the middle

Why the fuck not make, oh... I don’t know... a sequel instead?

They had me at Pink Floyd (cover, at least)

Yep, I’m definitely going to see that.

Close Encounters is such a great movie. Read more

The dead-eyed stare of the junkie racist (Scummicus Floridius) known to inhabit the Southern United States.

In the end, Bruce buys Martha’s Vineyard so he and Clark can cry-bond over shared mom names.  

EA straight up sucks. How they still have the Star Wars license is beyond me. 

I don’t know. Ridley has gone in a different direction. Maybe Ripley has done her bit. She deserves a rest. Read more

The Natural is a straight-up Arthurian story. The team (the New York Knights) have to win the pennant (the Holy Grail) in order to save Pop Fisher’s (The Fisher King) job. Read more

If you rearrange the letters in Ahsoka Tano, you get “A Satan Hook.” This means bad things are coming to The Mandalorian. Read more

Is Greg Sinise any relation to Gary Sinise?