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[Minor spoilers ahead if you know nothing about Mary Kay Letourneau or what this movie is based on] After a long holiday season of family and friends and several nieces and nephews trying to ride my (very small) dog into battle like the cavalry from Napoleon, I finally got a chance to settle in and…
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I would like to start by claiming that I think I was always on the right side of this. In fairness to anyone who doubted Barbie, you would have probably had cause to if you didn’t know who the director and writers were. I have the utmost trust in Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, and…
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Despite the heatwave striking most of the US, it was actually a pretty nice day on Saturday here in DC. It was so nice in fact that the group I had gathered to take to Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer were skittish about sitting down for a 3-hour historical biopic. Concerns such as “is this movie gonna…
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Well, no, it wasn’t, but it came really really close. In a mailbag episode of The Big Picture Podcast (check out this pod if you haven’t), a listener asked hosts Sean and Amanda to name one film they would ask a genie in a bottle for a ‘do over’ on. That means they run the…
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