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1980's Flashback Cinema

1989 Flashback: Gleaming the Cube

While the narrative feels trite and advances predictably, there’s a well-intentioned heart to the film that embraces the social consequences of being anti-establishment. I don’t want to oversell the film’s profundities, but Gleaming the Cube masks a certain amount of intelligence behind its caricature-laden and simpleminded facade — perfectly paralleling the plight of its main character.

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Cinema

4th Annual 30/007Hertz 2018 First-Watch Hertzie Award Nominations

My Letterboxd stats sheet suggests I watched about 293 new movies in 2018 (give or take a few that I forgot to log along the way). Of those 293 new movies, 239 were brand new-to-me watches. From King Arthur in the wee hours of the new year to our New Years Eve viewing of Blockers. If […]

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Cinema

The 30/007Hz First Watch 2015 Hertzie Nominations

The 30/007Hz First Watch 2015 Hertzie Nominations Movie awards season just kinda gets me down. A bunch of films created to win awards win awards. A bunch of actors that took roles with the purpose of winning awards win awards. Sometimes a movie stumbles into fame and fortune — although most likely that fame is […]