Eric Patrick
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Writes about music at: https://www.erictalksalbums.com/ Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/EG1979/ My You Tube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXdvmrFSaGCMJ86OWQnvgVQ
If you're reading a difficult text, it's ok to ask questions and seek out reference guides as an aide. But come on buddy, I know it's hard to get much reading done when you're on the jet set and right by the beach, but this is just glorified cliff notes www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
Robot book club
Reading books with an AI partner
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Why are there action scenes in movies? They don't move the movie along at all it just makes people uncomfortable. We could just skip to the after and show who's dead and stuff if we have to - get back to plot because exposition is the only thing that matters. Plot is king. Plot is god. Plot is all.
The Beatles released their greatest album 60 years ago today
A favorite scene from Close Encounters, it's like watching a documentary www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLiR...
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Air Traffic Control scene HD
YouTube video by Miguel
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The type of film criticism that drives me up the wall is the "This Movie Got Everything Right - Except for One Crucial Thing" or some variation of that.
Revisting the Prisoner on Criterion
The Prisoner Patrick Mcgoohan
ALT: The Prisoner Patrick Mcgoohan
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Watching Dogma, Alan Rickman pretty much steals that movie. But I like everyone in it.
Alan Rickman as Metatron in Dogma
ALT: Alan Rickman as Metatron in Dogma
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Reading Through War #8: Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
In late 1936 British author and journalist George Orwell volunteered to fight for the PUAM in Spain, Homage to Catalonia is an account of his experience in one of the more complex 20th ce…
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The happiest of birthdays in the afterlife to the eternally brilliant Stanley Kubrick!
Shout out to The Important Cinema Club, a killer run of episodes lately asking the question - What is Cinema? Theme Park rides? DVD Extras? Is the Making of 1941 the Rosetta Stone of Spielberg lore? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
#475 - Are They More Than Special Features?
Podcast Episode · The Important Cinema Club · July 16 · 1h 6m
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There's definitely a void without Colbert, I wasn't even a regular viewer, but always checked in. Coleman Domingo is doing a fantastic job filling in for Kimmell.
A million small things going wrong driving me crazy and its only Tuesday, can we just cancel this week?
