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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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I don’t know if Halperin is correct or not, but I’m guessing the aftermath of the election won’t be pretty, no matter which side wins. What I’m expecting:

• We won’t know who won on November 6. We might not know for weeks to come. Or months.
• There will be much emotion if we do find out early. Especially from Dems if they lose.
• If you still don’t know who to vote for at this point, do us all a favor and just stay home.
• If Trump prevails, count on the left to do what it can to ensure he’s not sworn in to office. Whatever it can.
• My brother-in-law sells booze and pot. He’s looking forward to big sales following November 5.
• MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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Wednesday is telling you who to vote for.

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Hollywood’s dearth of original ideas, glut of reboots and sequels, and speculation that superhero and comic-book movies might be on the way out, and video-game movies the new, big thing —

Hell, no! Why not go back to the treasure trove of screenplay ideas that has always served Hollywood so well: books?

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I watched some, not all, of season one of the Netflix drama The Diplomat and thought it was … OK.

It ain’t Borgen, and it ain’t House of Cards. It wasn’t bad, but it also wasn’t particularly memorable.

But I suppose season two is “must watch” because the protagonist is a female politician. Very “woke,” right?

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I’m afraid I am a bit like Donald Trump, who continues to hold out hope that he might get a fair shake from liberal media outlets like The New York Times. 

I had hoped, despite all evidence to the contrary, that the venerable CBS show 60 Minutes might somehow, some way, escape the taint of biased institutions like, well, CBS.

I should have known after the Lesley Stahl interview with Trump several years ago that even 60 Minutes was hopelessly unreliable.

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Three things I don’t expect we will ever get to the bottom of: UFOs, the Kennedy assassination, and the Epstein client list. Maybe four things. Depends on what happens with the investigations into the attempted assassinations of Trump.

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Like most people (or most men), I had never heard of podcaster Alexandra Cooper. So I’d like to thank Kamala Harris for bringing the blonde to my attention. Below are some pictures of Cooper. Some of the photos are real, but some are what they call “leaked nudes.” Who knows what’s real and what isn’t?

Maybe Kamala should have chosen Cooper as her running mate. The blonde podcaster certainly has a nicer ass than Tim Walz has.

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Could the much-anticipated “October surprise” be an embittered Joe Biden, doing what he can to sabotage the people who sabotaged his presidency, by attaching himself to Harris? Ah, the delicious irony.

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Well, we only have so much money. Better to send it to the Ukrainians and to help illegal aliens with their rent money or mortgages than to spend it on taxpaying Americans in crisis.

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I am growing quite fond of Chris Gore of Film Threat. Judging from his enthusiastic gushing about nudity in the clip below, the dude is apparently an “ass man.” As am I.

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Time didn’t want you to see this picture, so we are doing our part to show it to you, as a reminder, just before the election:

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Seems to me that all you need to know is that Kamala and Joe not only enabled the above migrations, but actively encouraged them.

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I have to wonder if, whoever it was that wrote this “parents’ guide” on IMDB about the new horror movie, The Substance, was aware that the movie’s director is a woman who, presumably, has a female gaze.

Here is a clip from director Coralie Fargeat’s previous movie, Revenge. Looks like there is even more “male gazing”:

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We said goodbye to Leah Peters this week on Big Brother. Here is some actual male gazing at Leah:

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I guess when you have a name like Brock Purdy, you have to expect this kind of thing.

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Our website host informed us a few days ago that The Grouchy Editor had been “attacked” — 32,000 times, give or take.

The assault, possibly from overseas, temporarily shut us down. As you can see, we are back up and running. We are upgrading firewall protections to prevent this sort of thing from happening again. 

The site should be back to normal soon, but no “Weekly Review” today.

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