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Being A Better Critic
It Follows was an exceptional film that I didn’t initially give a fair shot. I judged the film for all the things it didn’t do in the worst possible way. I learned a valuable lesson about how to engage films when they don’t go the way you want.
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Blue Fields Is Perfect
Final Fantasy VIII’s Blue Fields is the perfect thesis that encapsulates all of what Squall and his team are and endeavor to do.
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AVOutput in 2026
This year I am going to gather my courage and get back to doing what I love: Writing strange things.
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Mastering the Remaster: A Polish of Sins
Star Ocean The Second Story R is the best version of a flawed original. A masterpiece of remastering that doesn’t sand out anything in the original, even its very incomplete story.
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FLCL is NOT a MINDFUCK
FLCL was originally released on April 26, 2000 in Japan, making its way stateside 3 years later. Last weekend, the stateside release of the sequel, FLCL: Progressive, aired. Well, 18 years certainly feels like a long time. Kids born in 2000 have already been through the brunt of puberty and are now becoming legal adults.…
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