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The Long Take: Civil War and the Ideals of Apolitical Art
Maybe The Real Civil War Was the Friends We Made Along the Way
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The Long Take: The Fabulous Fashion of Michael Mann’s Movies
How fashion matters at the movies.
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The Long Take: Hayao Miyazaki's War
How The Boy and the Heron tells the story of anime's wartime roots, as well as Miyazaki's own experiences.
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My Favorite Things of 2023
From film to TV to anime to... anything I loved this year.
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Alex Didion
Literally Me: Lost in Translation (2003)
How Sofia Coppola's most famous film explores liminal tourism.
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The Long Take: My Moviebob Problem and Ours
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Reaction Shots: Shane Gillis is Funny. Hasan Minhaj is Not
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The Long Take: The Witch Trials of JK Rowling - A Review
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Reaction Shots: Why Ben Shapiro Dislikes Your Rap Song
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Film Club: Oliver Jia / Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (1983)
The Kyoto-based American researcher talks living on Japan, fighting randos on Twitter and Nagasa Oshima's masterpiece.
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Alex Didion
Reaction Shots: Shane Gillis is Funny. Hasan Minhaj is Not
Two comedians and a New Yorker walk into a bar.
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Reaction Shots: False Idols
Ramblings on Barbenheimer and Tedros and Tedros
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Alex Didion
Anime August - The real 'Monster' in Monster
Why Naoki Urasawa's classic psychological thriller is intense, challenging and hopeful.
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Alex Didion
Anime August - How You Should Read Berserk
Or why you don’t have to skip the Black Swordsman Arc.
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Anime August - What Attack on Titan says about Civilisation
An entry-level anime that is deeper than it really is.
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Anime August - An Intro
Or Why Convincing People To Watch Anime is Quite Difficult
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The Long Take: The High-Information Appeal of Succession
Just a week and a half late on this. Sorry! And of course, some spoilers ahead.
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Lack of Taste: A Manifesto
Let's get things settled.
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