Welcome to the first installment of Movie Mondays. This week’s movie: Chinatown. I sat down to watch Chinatown kind of on accident. I had just burst my way through the Star Wars franchise, and to do that, I signed up for Amazon Prime’s Starz free trial, which just happened to be the only place I could get Episode
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For my birthday this year, my boyfriend made me this amazing list of old movies that I need to see. We call it “the canon” fondly, but there are plenty of movies considered must-sees by most in the film criticism industry that aren’t on there. In any case, he created it for me so I
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Michael Schur’s (Parks and Recreation) latest show The Good Place, which premiered at the tail end of last year and wrapped up one night before the 2017 presidential inauguration, follows the newly deceased Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) as she lands in Heaven… by mistake. Asshole extraordinaire in life and now desperate not to be turned
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Last Saturday, on the first full day of the new Trump administration, actor and comedian Aziz Ansari hosted Saturday Night Live. His opening monologue was not shy about the recent political climate. Ansari made funny and strangely apt comparisons between Trump and Chris Brown, lamented the beginning of a “lower-case KKK movement” in America, and
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As Damien Chazelle’s hopeless-romantic La La Land‘s leads fall in love during the second act, jazz pianist Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) offers a piece of advice to aspiring actress and secret playwright Mia (Emma Stone): “You could just write your own rules. You know, write something as interesting as you are.” This relies on the assumption, of course,
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