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Josh Lasser is a freelance entertainment reporter/critic. His work has appeared in print, online, and perhaps one day in book form.
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Movie Review: “Elephants” (2020)
Disney has been anthropomorphizing elephants for decades so it doesn’t come as a surprise to see them do so again in the new DisneyNature film, “Elephant” (and, yes, animal documentaries regularly anthropomorphize their subjects). Launching this Friday on Disney+ in… Read More ›
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Movie Review: “Slay the Dragon”
If the ascendancy of Donald Trump to the Presidency didn’t already make it clear, elections matter; they have very real consequences for individuals within a country. As the new documentary “Slay the Dragon,” out this Friday, makes even more obvious… Read More ›
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“The Rise of Skywalker” and the ‘Fans’ on the Dark Side
There are great moments in “Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker.” No, the movie as a whole isn’t great, but there are great moments in it. Is that what causes so much anger amongst fans? Can’t be,… Read More ›
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Movie Review: “Resistance” (2020)
The world feels different at the moment, so this review will, somewhat necessarily, be different. Movies speak to the time in which they are made and the period which they are made about, but they also speak to the time… Read More ›
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Warring Road Trips: “The Wizard” and “1917”
What does it mean to struggle with a personal crisis? What does it mean to be going through hell? How can movies harness those ideas? In “1917” we see two soldiers have to go behind enemy lines to stop British… Read More ›
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Parsing a new World with “Stela”
Generally speaking, I don’t play video games that are strictly platformers. I will take on a Metroidvania-style title, yes, but more often than not I go for vast, open world, RPGs, the kind of game that I can sink 100—or… Read More ›
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Looking at Movie Cliches with the Man who Wrote the Book
Out on March 31st is a new book called “Spoiler Alert!: The Badass Book of Movie Plots: Why we all Love Hollywood Cliches,” and so this week on the podcast we have one of the authors, Chris Vander Kaay, here… Read More ›
