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September 2025 in Review + Tuesday Tease

‘Twenty years ago’, said Mark, toying with his knight, ‘we were fighting to save wilderness from destruction. Now it seems like we’re just fighting to keep ourselves off screens twenty-four hours a day.’ AGAINST THE MACHINE, Paul Kingsnorth September was, … Continue reading

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Moviewatch: July

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, 1993. This is the one where April buys a weird lamp at a thrift store and then she gets teleported to  feudal Japan, and the guys have to go after her and they get caught … Continue reading

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Moviewatch: June 2025

I’m reasonably sure I won’t be watching a movie tonight, so here’s this month’s movie list! Edit: I watched a movie, but you’ll have to wait an entire month to find out which one. She’s All That, 1999. Another movie … Continue reading

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Moviewatch, May 2025

Party Girl, 1995. Parker Posey is a dance hall fanatic who, upon finding herself financially strapped, decides to become a librarian.   This film is amusing from a librarian POV because she begins working in an early 1990s system that … Continue reading

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April 2025 in Review

Well, that was certainly an unusual April. It’s not the first time Read of England has been waylaid by a cowboy, though. Although I did start the month with some English-type reads, by and large it was Joe Pickett Month … Continue reading

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March 2025 in Review

Well, there’s no doubt about what March will be remembered for: my discovering CJ Box’s “Joe Pickett” series and instantly becoming hooked on it. I started the month in a mild funk, burned out a little by some of the … Continue reading

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Moviewatch: February 2025

My movie-watching buddy is going out of town this weekend, and I anticipate being wholly absorbed by The Sims 2 Legacy Edition Friday night, so I think I’ve watched my last movie for this month. Interestingly, all of my movies … Continue reading

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Moviewatch: January 2025

JANUARY: Supermarket Woman, 1996. Japanese comedy about a man with a struggling supermarket who runs into an old high school flame and, upon realizing she has Housewife insight into supermarket operations, hires her. Fascinating to see 1990s fashion in Japan. … Continue reading

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WWW Wednesday | Moviewatch: December 2024!

Happy 2025, people! WHAT have you finished reading recently? I’m within an hour of finishing the Audible version of Strange Weather in Tokyo, but finishing it would give first blood to fiction and that will not do. WHAT are you … Continue reading

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Top Ten Favorite Movies Watched in 2024

I watched a ridiculous amount of movies in 2024. (189!) Here’s my ten favorites, rewatches being disqualified. Margin Call, 2011.   Unexpectedly compelling for a movie that takes place over the course of two days, all of which involve men … Continue reading

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