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Benefit of the Doubt: Twitter movie reviews: 1 year, 100 movies, 140 characters each
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Monday, November 14, 2011. Twitter movie reviews: 1 year, 100 movies, 140 characters each. Over the past year, I've been tweeting movie reviews. I've tried to do this after every single movie I've seen, either in the theater or on video. I also covered a couple of the anime series I watched. I'm guessing I've captured about 70% of my consumption. Not bad, I don't think. Below I've compounded my first 100 Twitter movie capsules! Season of the Witch (2011) - History? Wicker Man (1973) - Weird: a story of d...
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Benefit of the Doubt: On Daily Intel and whether male feminists exist
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Monday, October 13, 2014. On Daily Intel and whether male feminists exist. In response to an article from Kat Stoeffel on the Daily Intel. Sure Boorish, self-important, and definitely not good for the movement. However, along with that valid point, this article has a willful divisiveness riding side-saddle, and I doubt it's doing the larger feminist movement many favors. That actually makes me feel more feminism-aligned. I have no desire for solidarity with men who express their masculinity through d...
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Benefit of the Doubt: May 2013
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Holy Motors (2012) as a success, even in its failures. After yet another hour-long session surfing NetFlix, trying to decide on an Instant film to watch, I settled on Holy Motors. A big-spectacle plus high-concept art film that showed in an unexpectedly wide range of theaters here in NYC in 2012. Having synthesized a number of write-ups and synopses, I pretty much knew what to expect. I enjoyed it. Also, because this is me, I have thoughts. The misgivings I had about Holy Motors.
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Benefit of the Doubt: September 2013
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Monday, September 30, 2013. Horse ebooks as a Free Will Fetish. It seems we cannot get enough of our mechanical mirror stage.". Peggy Nelson, Not a Bot. Horse ebooks was a token of that always-captivating emergent significance. Of course, this illuminates one of the dialectical dissociations that underwrites human consciousness: we are fascinated by randomness, because we cannot entirely come to terms with it. Fortune tellers seeks out the most chaotic, meaningless systems possible (cards shuffling, ...
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Benefit of the Doubt: On the Passing of Something (Robin Williams, 1951-2014)
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014. On the Passing of Something (Robin Williams, 1951-2014). How do you love an actor through their work? A celebrity, a public personality you've never met, never seen in their private moments, never known as anything but what they choose to put on the screen? A lot of questions, all intellectually interesting. Also, all easier to think about than the instigating event. All effective diversions. Or a great psychologist. And even, weirdly enough, the twisted and unhinged antagonist ...
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Benefit of the Doubt: August 2013
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Friday, August 16, 2013. A letter of appreciation regarding Xenoblade Chronicles (Monolith Soft, 2012). Dear friend who lent me Xenoblade Chronicles. Monolith Soft, 2012) for the Wii:. I have borrowed a lot of things from a lot of people, and. a confession. I've failed to give a lot of them back. (Dom, if you're reading this, I still have Skyward Sword. I once borrowed my friend's copy of The Women's Room. And what irony, then, what karmic poetry, that this one time that I've really made an effort to be ...
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Benefit of the Doubt: April 2013
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013. On Soderbergh and Present Shock. I'm kind of fascinated by the beginning of Steven Soderbergh's piece on the current state of cinema. In which he talks about that moment of paralysis when you feel like every framework, every intelligible construct of ideas, is all collapsing on itself. He describes feeling this way on a Jet Blue flight:. I get this wave of – not panic, it’s not like my heart started fluttering – but I had this sense of, am I going insane? I feel this more and mor...
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Benefit of the Doubt: Horse_ebooks as a Free Will Fetish
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Monday, September 30, 2013. Horse ebooks as a Free Will Fetish. It seems we cannot get enough of our mechanical mirror stage.". Peggy Nelson, Not a Bot. Horse ebooks was a token of that always-captivating emergent significance. Of course, this illuminates one of the dialectical dissociations that underwrites human consciousness: we are fascinated by randomness, because we cannot entirely come to terms with it. Fortune tellers seeks out the most chaotic, meaningless systems possible (cards shuffling, ...
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Benefit of the Doubt: Twitter reviews 2013
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Friday, July 11, 2014. I was going to post these around the New Year, but apparently I got hung up on a sort of micro-procrastination. Now seems like as good a time as any. I've been doing these for three. Now, and it seems I watch fewer movies each year. This sounds like a narrative of decline, but I prefer to think of it as a temporary shift. 2013) - A film of silences and oscillations: warm to cold, expansive to claustrophobic. Beautifully shot; simply and effectively acted. Cave of Forgotten Dreams.
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Benefit of the Doubt: August 2014
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014. On the Passing of Something (Robin Williams, 1951-2014). How do you love an actor through their work? A celebrity, a public personality you've never met, never seen in their private moments, never known as anything but what they choose to put on the screen? A lot of questions, all intellectually interesting. Also, all easier to think about than the instigating event. All effective diversions. Or a great psychologist. And even, weirdly enough, the twisted and unhinged antagonist ...
