Showing posts with label Netflix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Netflix. Show all posts
Thursday, October 5, 2017

Bad Rap is a timely and often funny look at Asian American rappers who want to have a radio hit like P-Lo or Far East Movement do

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Dumbfoundead in Bad Rap A longer and heavily-updated-in-2020 version of the following blog post can be found in If You Haven't Se...
Monday, July 3, 2017

Okja is two hours of Bong Joon-ho's usual boldness, plus Jake Gyllenhaal doing an odd Marvin Tikvah impression

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This is the seventh of 12 or 13 all-new blog posts that are being posted on a monthly basis until this blog's final post in December...
Thursday, June 1, 2017

Electric Boogaloo entertainingly looks back at Cannon Films, the Fyre Festival of indie movie studios

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Mathilda May does her impression of me halfway through a Blu-ray of an '80s Cannon Films action movie in a scene from the big-budget 1...
Monday, November 21, 2016

Star Trek 101 and beyond

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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock I have a couple of confessions to make. I run a Tumblr about accidental Star Trek cosplay, but as ...
Friday, October 28, 2016

AFOS Blog Rewind: The Guest

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The following is a repost of my October 29, 2015 discussion of The Guest . After I published this post, Dan Stevens, the film's sta...
Thursday, June 9, 2016

The late Muhammad Ali lives on in compelling docs ranging from the crowd-pleasing When We Were Kings to the heartbreaking Muhammad and Larry

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(Photo source: RogerEbert.com) I was too young to catch the late Muhammad Ali in his prime as a boxer and civil rights activist . So it...
Thursday, May 26, 2016

AFOS Blog Rewind: Bob's Burgers, "Best Burger"

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The cast and crew of Bob's Burgers celebrated the show's 100th episode with a cake that was cut by the perfect person to be seen ...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

The best thing about Pee-wee's Big Holiday is that it will introduce a new generation of viewers to Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

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"You ever been in a fight?," wonders Joe Manganiello--who stars as himself in the new Netflix original movie Pee-wee's Big ...
Monday, December 7, 2015

Attach the block: Netflix's Black Mirror: White Christmas imagines a cold future where people can be blocked in offline relationships like on Twitter

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The following is a repost of a piece from December 17, 2014 . It was published right after Black Mirror: White Christmas had its British ...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Netflix's Master of None is revolutionary, and not just because it's the first half-hour comedy filmed in pimptastic 2.35:1 (ask your film nerd friend)

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The following contains spoilers for the final two episodes of Master of None. Asian American men have been so badly stereotyped and em...

Throwback Thursday Throwback: Short Term 12

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Today's edition of Throwback Thursday is a repost of a TBT piece from April 2, 2015 . There was only one word that kept surfacing ...