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Let’s All Make Fun of Tom’s Brackets (2024 Edition)
After a brief moment of glory derived from my championship-winning 2021 bracket, I returned to (poor) form in 2022. In fact, my 2022 bracket was evidently bad enough that I decided not even to post my 2023 bracket. That 2022 … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Sports
Tagged Basketball, Brackets, Humor, Insanity, March Madness, NCAA, NCAA Basketball, Sports
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Timely Movie Review: American Fiction
[**Spoilers**] Upon watching the very fine trailer for American Fiction, one could be forgiven for concluding that the film is “only” a satirical look at modern racial and cultural norms about the “black experience” in America. Something like 1987’s excellent … Continue reading
Timely Movie Review: Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan is my favorite director. He is one of the few filmmakers whose name alone is enough to get me to the theater. In fact, he may be the only one. For example, although Damian Chazelle’s Whiplash and First Man … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, Commentary, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Movies, Reviews, Robert Downey
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Timely Movie Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
*SPOILERS AHEAD* James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 breaks a lukewarm streak for MCU films, partly because it doesn’t fit into the current run of Marvel fare. Instead, it’s both a satisfying conclusion to a distinct trilogy and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bradley Cooper, Chris Pratt, Commentary, Drax, Floor, Gamora, Guardians of the Galaxy, James Gunn, Lylla, Movies, Nebula, Rocket, Rocket Raccoon, Teefs, Zoe Saldana
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Untimely Movie Review – Inception (OR: At Long Last, The End)
It has taken me eight-and-a-half years, but the cinematic odyssey that began in early 2014 has come to a close. That was when I purchased the Warner Bros. 50 Film Collection, vowing to review every single movie in the set. I … Continue reading
Timely Movie Review: Elvis
*SPOILERS AHEAD* The recent Baz Luhrmann Elvis biopic succeeds more than it fails. First and foremost, Austin Butler is very good, and he will likely get a Best Actor Oscar nomination. His only sin is not being Elvis, but nobody … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin Butler, Baz Luhrmann, Commentary, Elvis, Elvis Presley, Movies, Tom Hanks, Tom Parker
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Timely Movie Review: Top Gun: Maverick
*SPOILERS (DANGER ZONE) AHEAD* Imagine someone comes to you and says, “I just ate the best hot dog I’ve ever had.” If you’re like me, your response would be something along the lines of “Where did you get it? Because … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Christopher McQuarrie, Commentary, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Miles Teller, Movies, Tom Cruise
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Timely Movie Review: Men
*SPOILERS AHEAD* Alex Garland’s Men was well on its way to being one of the better horror films I’ve seen, but took a detour into a bizarrely graphic, possibly literary-esque symbolism in the final 20-30 minutes that abruptly shifted it … Continue reading
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Tagged A24, Alex Garland, Commentary, Jessie Buckley, Men, Movies, Paapa Essiedu, Rory Kinnear
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Timely Movie Review: The Northman
*SPOILERS AHEAD* I see a lot of movies. Only rarely do I feel the need to write a review about a film I’ve just seen in a theater. And it usually isn’t the case that I write a review because … Continue reading
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A Gay (as in “Happy”) Father’s Day
Dedicated and detail-oriented readers may recall a post from way back in 2011 about an advertisement that appeared in Time and Newsweek in 1961. The ad featured my father portraying a medical student (which he was not). For those of you too lazy … Continue reading →