The Happy Mutant's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion

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This was a fun movie…

Beautiful landscape in Northern Greece, lots of action, and John David Washington was great.

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Watched it just now. I hadn’t really been aware of them but I’ve known about the movie for quite some time via Edgar Wright’s involvement in the LA comedy scene that I loosely follow from afar (and that has bled into the movie) and I agree with you: it’s just joyous to see a career like that that never lost its steam through all its ups and downs. It almost feels made up how many developments in music they were a part of before those developments even became mainstream and how they still always sounded like themselves.

I don’t generally watch music documentaries or biographies but this one is really worth it. Turns out Edgar Wright is also a great documentarian. So many visual gags in that movie, too.

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One of the weirdest films I’ve ever seen. Very impressive, in several ways.

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Oh, I’ve been wondering how that film is. I’ll add it to my to watch list…

also, finally got around to watching One Night In Miami…

Which was a beautifully done film.

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Watched this on Kanopy, and the performances were great:

The story was definitely thought-provoking, too.

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It better be as weird as his work was…

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Maybe rotoscope the whole thing as well, i’d be on board for that.

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Winona Ryder Movie GIF by filmeditor

That was a good film… I also really liked Radio Free Ablemuth, which was low budget, but still pretty well done…

And also, God was in it.

alanis morissette scream GIF

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Still not seen it but i’ve read good things so for the moment A Scanner Darkly tops my list of adaptations.

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Êtes-vous en France?

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Is Nick Cage France’s new Jerry Lewis yet?

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In a segment slated to air on BBC World Service’s The Conversation next Monday, Kauffman apologized for referring to Matthew Perry’s character Chandler Bing’s transgender mother as his “father.”

“Pronouns were not yet something that I understood,” Kauffman told the BBC,which published excerpts of the interview online and shared them with several news outlets. “So we didn’t refer to that character as ‘she.’ That was a mistake.”

It’s not the first time Kauffman has addressed some of the show’s more problematic elements.

“I think we didn’t have the knowledge about transgender people back then, so I’m not sure if we used the appropriate terms,” she told USA Today in 2019. “I don’t know if I would have known those terms back then. I think that’s the biggest one. Every time I watch an episode, there’s something I wish I could have changed.”

Kauffman spoke of the lack of diversity on Friends in a recent Los Angeles Times interview. While she initially defended the show, she donated $4 million to Brandeis University to establish the Marta F. Kauffman '78 Professorship of African and African American Studies.

“I’ve learned a lot in the last 20 years,” Kauffman told the Times. I’m embarrassed that I didn’t know better 25 years ago."

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This was an entertaining sci-fi film - a tale of tangled timelines :face_with_spiral_eyes::

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