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June 2024: Serenity (2005)
It surely will come as no surprise to longtime readers of this blog that over the past several months I have been in the preliminary stages of developing my thesis, which I currently intend to be basically a Marxist history of the Western genre. As part of this work, I revisited the TV series Firefly…
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May 2024: Furiosa (2024)
With a handful of notable exceptions, May was a somewhat unremarkable month in terms of my film viewing. One of those exceptions was Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024). I would even go so far as to say that, at least to my subjective tastes, it was superior to Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), and…
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April 2024: Brief non-post post
I am once again quite busy with grad school, as I am nearing the end of the semester and have to write approximately 20-30 pages by the middle of this month, so there will be no regular post today. Normal posting should resume next month. I also saw so many great films in the past…
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March 2024: March Around the World Highlights
For a number of personal reasons, I was quite busy at the end of this month as well, so there will be no normal post today. However, this is not quite a non-post post, as over the course of the month I completed a Letterboxd challenge called March Around the World, which included writing substantial…
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February 2024: Brief non-post post
February 2024 was probably one of the busiest months of my life, so while things do seem to be calming down, I still don’t really have the energy or motivation for a full post right now. I did still manage to watch a lot of films in February, though with a handful of exceptions it…
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January 2024: The Twilight Saga (2008-2012)
This may come as a surprise to some readers, and is perhaps a damning indictment of my mental state, but by far the highlight of the past month in my life was a marathon of 35mm prints of all five Twilight films. This was my first time seeing any of the films, and, in the…
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Resolutions 2024
As I mentioned in my previous post, this month’s post will continue the tradition (started a year ago today) of my first post of the year outlining New Year’s resolutions for the coming year, which I feel was a successful tool to guide my viewing habits. I would say that I made at least some…
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November 2023: Brief non-post post
I am exceptionally busy with grad school right now, so there will be no full post this month. It was a great month of films, with the highlights probably being Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru (1952), which (as noted in my Letterboxd review) had to be a pretty incredible film to not be overshadowed by briefly meeting…
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October 2023: The Exorcist (1974)
I have once again decided against writing about my favorite first-time watch of the month, which this month was The Battle of Algiers (1966) (my Letterboxd followers may have noticed that this is my new fourth-favorite film). While it’s entirely possible that this is true for other films that I’ve written about on here, I…
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September 2023: Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)
As long-time readers of this blog will recall, for most of the last year, I have been getting a friend caught up on Doctor Who ahead of the 60th anniversary specials, and, as I briefly mentioned in my post about this in April, part of that has included watching the entire runs of the Sixth…