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200 words about One Battle After Another
They say you’re supposed to grow more conservative as you get older, that parenting turns you safe and boring.
Sep 30
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Clayton Purdom
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198 words about The Materialists
Credit A24’s marketing for making me expect a sparkling comedy of manners in the vein of Whit Stillman or (sorry) Woody Allen when instead what The…
Sep 25
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Clayton Purdom
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200 words about Donkey Kong Bananza
There is an idea of “game feel” — the specific way that mechanics, animation, sound, and the tactile experience of holding a controller intersect.
Sep 23
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Clayton Purdom
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August 2025
199 words about The Last Samurai
Released before and bearing no relation to the Tom Cruise movie that stole its name, The Last Samurai dramatizes the relationship between two of the…
Aug 28
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Clayton Purdom
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196 words about Eddington
Ari Aster has now released a great movie, a good movie, a bad movie, and an okay movie, in that order; the trendline isn’t good, but I remain a…
Aug 26
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Clayton Purdom
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200 words about Hail To The Thief
I saw Ted Leo this March touring the 20th anniversary of Shake The Sheets. He rejected its reputation as his “political” album — he’d intended it, he…
Aug 21
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Clayton Purdom
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199 words about Burial
Burial's first two albums were, among other things, masterpieces of world-building, dystopian but sensual.
Aug 12
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Clayton Purdom
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198 words about Seven Samurai
This is a movie about multiples.
Aug 6
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Clayton Purdom
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200 words about The Adam Friedland Show
All Adam Friedland used to get was shit on.
Aug 4
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Clayton Purdom
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July 2025
189 words about Rashomon
I believe this movie takes place at the end of the world.
Jul 26
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Clayton Purdom
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195 words about KPop Demon Hunters
“The future belongs to crowds,” Don DeLillo wrote in Mao II, and while he wasn’t talking about KPop Demon Hunters he wasn’t not talking about it…
Jul 24
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Clayton Purdom
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195 words about the Clipse
“You can hop but you won’t always be hip,” noted flautist Andre 3000 once said of his decision to retire from rapping.
Jul 17
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Clayton Purdom
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