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Hoopleheads: Episode 18 “Something Very Expensive”

March 9, 2019 By Søren Hough 3 Comments

https://www.hbo.com/deadwood/season-02/6-something-very-expensive

“Something Very Expensive” is an explosive episode that finally delivers on the foreboding promise of Mr. W (Garret Dillahunt). Here we finally see his truest colors, only hinted at before. He sees the world as transactional; there are proclivities he would like satisfied, and George Hearst provides the capital to cover for his indulgences. Sometimes […]

Television

Hoopleheads: Episode 16 “Requiem for a Gleet”

February 23, 2019 By Søren Hough 2 Comments

https://www.hbo.com/deadwood/season-02/4-requiem-for-a-gleet/

“Requiem for a Gleet” lives up to its name this episode, highlighting a deeply agonized Al (Ian McShane) as he struggles to hold on to consciousness in the face of extreme pain. Indeed, this episode serves as a finale to the Kidney Stone Arc, as it were, finally offering Al a gleet-ful release from his […]

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12 Years a Slave

November 28, 2013 By Esther Rosenfield 2 Comments

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For as long as cinema has existed, there have been movies about human atrocity. It’s one of our favorite things to tell stories about. The optimist would say that these films help us to heal wounds, to work through difficult cultural memories by recreating them in a dramatized context. The pessimist would say that these […]

London Film Festival 2024 Highlights

November 1, 2024 By Søren Hough

London Film Festival 2024 Preview

October 20, 2024 By Søren Hough

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Mushrooms Galore at Fungi Film Festival 2023

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