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I complain and I watch movies and I complain about the movies I've watched. Favorite film: Wings of Desire

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Can’t wait to get more followers so I can start dishing on my amazing film life. Like how I went to the high school used in High School Musical and sat behind David Lynch at the FWWM premiere and shook Rutger Hauer’s hand (not all on the same day).

Well, shit. That might be it.

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A huge collection of signed Denise Mina books is about to end on Catawiki, and I'm sad because Portugal would charge way too much in customs. She's my current favorite author!

https://t.co/MOx9VPbARu

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It got there. Luckily I padded her timing by an hour just in case, so she should still get there 3 hours before her flight. I was worried service had stopped. Thank you!

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@nxupdates What’s going on with A5 and A6? It’s over an hour late and my 78 year old mother is waiting at Stop M to get to her Stansted flight.

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@JimGR Creator, since it really only works because of the insane visuals. It requires being seen on as big a screen as possible. That way those small annoying things seem smaller.

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@Apple Family Sharing really not taking divorce into account yet? It's been 6 years or so that we've been complaining about it. Poor kid has to decide which parent to be connected to, and I can't compete with free Apple TV+.

(Only 'family' members can be AU on Apple card.)

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@k3nnyThom @pattonoswalt Same! ❤️

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@pattonoswalt True story: As a kid, I got stuck in a theater waiting for my mom and sat through MegaForce THREE TIMES in a row.

That lack of movie-related parental oversight also led to me seeing Blazing Saddles at 7 years old and Harold and Maude at 6, so… not all bad?

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6 seasons into our X-Files rewatch, we’ve noted the following:

1. The deliberately funny episodes are the most enjoyable;

2. The serious episodes are the funniest. These were truly the worst-trained FBI agents in entertainment history.

3. Fox Mulder sure liked to touch women.

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@sharkchompchomp I don’t believe that one should devote their life to morbid self-attention.

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@Farts_Johnson Definitely the number one flaw. Uncanny valley? More like uncanny sinkhole.

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@sharkchompchomp I just read Michael Mann’s Heat 2 novel, and somehow he wrote Vincent Hanna using Pacino’s inflections. It’s pretty rough hearing that delivery in your head. I kept telling the book to stop overacting.

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@Farts_Johnson How dare you. Rogue One is the good shit (despite its flaws).

I agree with the rest, though.

Also:
Book of Boba Fett: Meh
Obi-Wan Kenobi: Pushing it (sorry, Ewan!)

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I just subscribed to Your Local Epidemiologist https://t.co/0lI4PCx86k

Been meaning to for awhile, but her latest email (about the upcoming end of COVID’s emergency status) made a lot of sense to this immunocompromised American.

Her takes are smart and politically unmuddled.

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@peacock is giving me anxiety. Please just let me read a synopsis without starting the damn movie!

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In my late teens, I visited a friend’s family and managed to convince his little cousin that books were awesome. His mom later said it changed his life.

Which just goes to show that, to little kids, any older person is automatically cool. Good thing I wasn’t pushing meth.

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@sharkchompchomp It’s way better than Provo

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@sharkchompchomp Oh god; I’ve seen some of your recommendations. Martyrs is NOT a comedy.

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@sharkchompchomp Yes! Melanie Lynskey is an amazing actor and incredibly compelling in even the smallest parts.

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10,000 hours watching movies. Finally I’m an expert at something!

Oh.. wait: https://t.co/UahwRRHwxw

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Dammit; forgot to mention that the above quote is from Kevin Wilson’s latest: Now Is Not the Time to Panic.

As an artist, I LOVE how art fits into most of his stories. The Family Fang, for example, worked on many levels, but the way he talked about art led me back to creating.

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❤️Kevin Wilson.

“I almost never told anyone what I liked because I was terrified that they would tell me how stupid it was. Every single thing that you loved became a source of both intense obsession and possible shame.”

Exactly my experience in high school in 1980s SLC, Utah.