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Intrusive Thoughts

Cough of Death

December 17, 2014

It is possible to cough without having an incurable disease. Unless you're in the movies.

Seventy-Five Years of Spectacle

December 15, 2014

One of Hollywood's great spectacles even if there are excellent reasons for not liking it.

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Home and Not Home

December 3, 2014

The problem with being from Los Angeles is the existence of Mythic Los Angeles.

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Film and the Normalization of Happy Families

November 26, 2014

Connecting with your family of origin is not always a happy ending.

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The War to Inspire No War Movies

November 12, 2014

World War I has left surprisingly little of itself in pop culture.

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He Talked Just . . . Like . . . This!

October 29, 2014

There's just something about children's movies that scares the heck out of, you know, children.

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Macaroni and Cheese for the Soul

October 22, 2014

Comfort movies are just as real and just as valid as comfort food.

Childhood's Secret Pain: Where the Wild Things Are Five Years Later

October 16, 2014

Even neurotypical children feel deeper rage and fear than some adults realize.

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Oscar Winners of the ’70s and Sexism

October 15, 2014

The horrific misogyny of the best-known films of the 1970s.

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Getting Your Seat Kicked Through Ponyo: Children and the Theatrical Experience

October 8, 2014

How to know when your child is ready to go to a theatre.

Job's Shaggy Dog Story: Five Years of A Serious Man

October 2, 2014

The perils of not seeing yourself as a serious man.

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Shhhh!

October 1, 2014

It's actually okay to talk over trailers and other etiquette hot takes.