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Lion Face, Lemon Face: Beth Grant

The phrase "character actor" typically provokes images of middle-aged men who look like normal human beings; while George Clooney or Brad Pitt somehow make that certain age look r…

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Full Season Review

As much as I enjoyed the return of Star Trek to television in the form of "Star Trek: Discovery," there was something about it that smacked of a change in tone. On the plus side, …

Letterboxd Review - Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)

It's a sequel! That means bigger explosions, more exotic settings, a new powerful bad guy...et cetera. Jumanji: The Next Level has all of that, leading movie archeologists in the fut…

Letterboxd Reviews: The Quick and the Dead (1995)

File this one under "No one else was thinking about it." I imagine the Sam Raimi, Gore Verbinski, and Tim Burton of the mid-1990s era would have had a lot of fun making a kind of …

WandaVision Review: Episode 3 "Now in Color"

Wanda Maximoff, as she is written and portrayed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is a hero defined almost entirely by pain and regret. Her origins as a lab experiment and enhanced minion f…

A Ranking of Every US Presidential Grave Site

This ranked list was adapted from its original version (a really long Twitter thread). It has been formatted to fit this blog post. By Joey Baker ( @CptBaker ) Alright, I don't know h…

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