Setsuled's Journal
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Get Your Threepenny's Worth

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A notorious killer marries the daughter of the king of beggars in 1931's The Threepenny Opera ( Die 3 Groschen-Oper ) , GW Pabst'...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

There is Escape

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I was watching some vintage commercials this morning, getting ready for an activity in class to-day where the students are going to write co...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Possible Return

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A group of women deal with death, sexual assault, and possibly ghosts in 2006's Volver . Writer/director Pedro Almodovar continues to ...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Comedy is Hard Labour

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Be careful with your intellectual comments; they might get you six years hard labour in a communist country as the protagonist of 1968...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

What Manner of Cheese Would Drive Us Hither?

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Last night I dreamt I was with a group of friends and we were lost in a labyrinthine department store. We finally came out through some do...
Friday, June 13, 2025

Day of the Andor

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I was pleased to see yesterday that Andor topped the Nielson streaming chart during its final week (for some reason Nielson ratings are d...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Harris Yulin

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Harris Yulin, who passed away on June 10th at the age of 87, is one of those actors you're bound to have seen at some point if you reg...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

For the Discerning Crow

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Gene Hackman and Al Pacino are a pair of tramps in 1973's Scarecrow , a film that largely rides on their performances. Well, Vilmos Zs...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Billy Bye

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I watched Ally McBeal again last night, the March 27, 2000 episode called "Boy Next Door". This one ( spoilers ) brings the ongoi...
Monday, June 09, 2025

The Lala Way

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I was watching Ally McBeal last night and noticed the episode was directed by Rachel Talalay, a director with a very long career in televis...
Sunday, June 08, 2025

The Sillier Adventures of the Predator

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Three separate Predators set out to hunt three different human warriors in 2025's Predator: Killer of Killers , an animated film from ...
Saturday, June 07, 2025

The Late Tide

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I finally managed to get through 2011's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides last night. Every time I'd tried to watch it ...
Friday, June 06, 2025

More Hobbit Than Hobbit

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I drew this not exactly book accurate sketch of Bilbo and Gollum in the art club of one of the schools I've been working at lately. I ...
Thursday, June 05, 2025

A Long Time Coming

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Well, here's something hot off the presses for you. A mere six hours ago, the Talking Heads finally released an official video for the...
Wednesday, June 04, 2025

Formula Phantoms

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I watched an oddly lame episode of Ally McBeal last night, "In Search of Pygmies" from February, 2000. It has two plots; one in w...
Tuesday, June 03, 2025

The Luckiest and the Unluckiest

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A private detective gets caught up in a sordid tale of sex and murder in 1975's Night Moves , one of the many neo- noir s of the 1970s...
Monday, June 02, 2025

In Days Gone By

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I came across my old iPod and charged it up. After more than fifteen years, it still seems to work fine. It has the old audiobooks I put on ...
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