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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

The Newsroom (2012-2014): A Short, Belated Review

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In between binge-eating and binge-napping, Katie-Bar-The-Door and I spent our Thanksgiving holidays binge-watching Aaron Sorkin's The Ne...
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Sunday, October 29, 2017

Baby Driver (2017): Mini-Review

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An empty exercise in style, Baby Driver is a compilation of every heist movie cliche — the big boss, the last job, the loose cannon, the dr...
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Saturday, October 21, 2017

The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

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My good friend Mister Muleboy and I met at the AFI-Silver last night to see the classic 1974 heist flick, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (Abridged Audiobook)

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We here at the Monkey recently stumbled across this long-out-of-print audiobook version of Hunter S. Thompson's classic exercise in Gonz...
Saturday, October 14, 2017

Thursday Night At The Ball Park (Courtesy Of SwearTrek.tumblr.com)

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Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Blade Runner 2049: I Want More Life, F#cker

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Director Denis Villeneuve takes a ninety-minute butterfly and pins its wings to a nearly three-hour running time. All the flaws of the origi...
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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Shaken, Not Stirred

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I'm giving Alabama the benefit of the doubt and assuming that when they saw the name "Moore" on the ballot, they thought they ...
Monday, September 18, 2017

The Good Place Returns

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Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Walter Becker (1950-2017)

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It occurs to me that if I could write 200 words about the passing of a comedian I could barely tolerate, I can certainly write one sentence ...
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Sunday, August 20, 2017

Jerry Lewis (1926-2017)

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Jerry Lewis wasn't so much a comedian as a one-man demolition derby. His gift lay not in building a gag but in destroying it. He arriv...
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Look at me—Joe College, with a touch of arthritis. Are my eyes really brown? Uh, no, they're green. Would we have the nerve to dive into the icy water and save a person from drowning? That's a key question. I, of course, can't swim, so I never have to face it. Say, haven't you anything better to do than to keep popping in here early every morning and asking a lot of fool questions?
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