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June 26, 2014 Pop Culture Time Machine: Movie Musical
Pop Culture Time Machine is when I choose what role I’d go back and play if I were given the choice (and a time machine). I’m not a huge fan of musicals. I mean, I can watch them and I’ve seen plenty of them, but if I were making a list of Favorite Genres they wouldn’t […]
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June 24, 2014 Tuesday 10: Movies of 1987
Sometimes people make fun of me for the things I like by saying “it’s not popular like ____________!” and I think that’s the dumbest possible argument I’ve ever heard about anything. You would expect to see more Ford Escorts on the road than Cadillacs. I’ve ridden in both and, hey, the Cadillac is a much better […]
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June 23, 2014 I Don’t Know If It’s Art, But I Like It
This weekend I made a 5-hour round trip to go see an art exhibit in Chicago. Normally I wouldn’t travel more than, say, 15 minutes to go to an art show that didn’t feature art by someone I knew, but I made an exception in this case because the art was all Ghostbusters-themed. Gallery nineteen […]
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June 19, 2014 Wish I Was Here Followup
A few days ago I was in Chicago to see Wish I Was Here as one part of the reward for backing the project on Kickstarter a little over a year ago. This viewing was originally slated to be some time in September, but it got moved up. I don’t know why, but it worked out […]
Tags: Wish I Was Here, Zach Braff
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June 12, 2014 Maleficent
The first time I saw a picture of Angelina Jolie in her Maleficent getup I knew I’d want to see the movie. I have no great attachment to Disney’s Sleeping Beauty – I can’t remember the last time I saw it, or even if I have seen it all the way through – but its […]
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