We’re seeing lots of barely suppressed glee from conservatives in recent days, and it’s giving me deja vu. It worries me.
It’s too similar to the optimism on the right two years ago when we were told to expect a “big red wave” at the midterm elections.
Yeah, that wave petered out, didn’t it?
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Say what you will about Biden, he’s certainly going out with a bang. Or a bite.
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Non-political stuff (movies & TV)
Left to right: male chauvinist pig, heroic female, serial killer
Woman of the Hour (above) — Director-star Anna Kendrick wanted to send a message about misogyny in America in her movie about a woman who meets a serial killer on The Dating Game (allegedly based on a “true” story). I watched and concluded that Kendrick sends her message about misogyny by making every male character in the film — including the “good” guys — evil, stupid, or weak.
In other words, Kendricks’s movie about misogyny is misandrist. Grade: C
Escape at Dannemora — This originally aired on Showtime some years ago, but it’s now on Netflix. The eight-part series about a prison escape in 2015 is mostly absorbing and suspenseful. But there are slow sections. It should have been six or seven parts. Grade: B+
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Horror flicks are having a moment. Every month seems to mark the premiere of another critically acclaimed chiller (Heretic, The Substance, Strange Darling, to name a few).
The problem for me is that I still feel burned by last year, in which a mediocrity called Talk to Me was widely praised as horror flick of the year. It wasn’t. And so, as they say, “Fool me once ….”
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Last but not least, the video below is making the rounds on X. I can’t seem to take my eyes off this girl’s impressive … dive:
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