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On Inside
Bo Burnham’s Inside is a rich text, even by his high standards. When it was first released, I watched it over and over within the same week. I’ve returned to it several times since, and had the album on a loop, spending hours wrestling with the themes Burnham explores. (It’s probably why this entry wound…
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On Palm Springs
[cw: rape, date rape] I watched Palm Springs for the first time during the horrible winter lockdown of early 2021, when Covid rates were sky-high in the UK, and both global and personal traumas were bearing firmly down. My boyfriend and I rewatched the film for the first time over a year later – last…
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On Come From Away
I have really complicated feelings about 9/11 material, be it films or books or exhibits or TV specials. I know the day means lots of things to lots of different people, and I can’t speak to most of them. In my mind, 9/11-focused content is associated with self-centered emoting by Americans, when the vast majority…
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On Soul and Nomadland
It was a double feature made in that most haphazard of situations: a long-haul flight, with a movie selection featuring a surprising number of Academy Award nominees. As I scanned the offerings on the small screen, I picked out two films that loomed urgently on my unwatched list: the latest Pixar offering, and the reigning…
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On The Pursuit of Love
I have now seen Emily Wilson’s BBC adaptation of The Pursuit of Love three times in its entirety. The first time was on a whim, just after its release, as a friend and I brainstormed what to watch together that night. I hadn’t read the novel and had barely heard of Nancy Mitford. Soon, I…
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On God Spare the Girls
[cw: discussions of rape and sexual assault, from the Bible and Shakespeare play Titus Andronicus] A new novel by a fellow alumna of The University of Texas at Austin, with a protagonist that chooses this university to the reluctant dread of her evangelical family – set under the big skies of rural Texas and punctuated…
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On Succession
I’ve been re-watching the second season of Succession this week, partially as an impromptu celebration of the dropping of the trailer for season 3, and partially because I realized that my best friend, who is visiting from America, has never watched the show at all. (The friend in question is currently quarantined with an asymptomatic…
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