Weekly Geekery
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The Saturday Rumpus Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
However, it’s taken me too long to say: The Force Awakens really is a fun and breathtaking movie
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The Saturday Rumpus Review: 99 Homes
99 Homes continues Bahrani’s tendency to take on big topics, to cut them into chewable pieces for its audience
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OG Dad #27: Tiny Brandos
Forgive me if I’ve said it before, but now that I’m working dad duty without heroin I can see why I needed it.
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The Rumpus Review of The Act of Killing
At a recent screening at the JCC in Manhattan, filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer stated that he wanted his film, The Act of Killing, to portray the “humanity of evil”.
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with Tom Bissell
Editor, journalist, memoirist, travel writer, short story writer, humorist, and public intellectual, Tom Bissell is the possessor of enough prizes, recognitions, and stellar reviews to fill a medium-sized moving van.
...moreTo Absorb the Appendages of Time
Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams opens in theaters today. You walk out of Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams overcome by the power of time. Personally, I find it almost impossible to conceptualize life in terms of time to begin with—it moves beyond my understanding, both imperceptibly slow and impossibly fast, depending on […]
...moreMorning Coffee
This is about as festive as I get, Australian Tesla Christmas tree! A very serious problem this Christmas season. These pictures were taken by creating a fake company. They are pretty rad. Astronaut catches satelite!
...moreShort but Striking: The Films of Les Blank
Who knew a gap could be filled with so much. But such is the lure and luxury of the films of Les Blank, such as his ode to gap-toothed women aptly called Gap-Toothed Women. When asked why gap teeth are referred to in France as “the teeth of happiness,” a young French girl strokes her […]
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