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Nobody says "Huh?" like Denzel

This is the second of 12 or 13 blog posts that are being posted on a monthly basis from January 2017 until this blog's final post in December 2017.Once upon a time, I ran an Internet radio station that...

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No Soup for us: The disappointment over E! never archiving The Soup for the...

This is the third of 12 or 13 blog posts that are being posted on a monthly basis until this blog's final post in December 2017.The longest I laughed over one of Joel McHale's quips on E!'s now-defunct...

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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Rick and Morty, "The Rickshank...

This is the fourth of 12 or 13 blog posts that are being posted on a monthly basis until this blog's final post in December 2017. Occasionally on Friday, I discuss the week's best first-run animated...

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In Ghost Protocol, the gadgets turn into the Mission: Impossible team's worst...

I have a theory that the Mission: Impossible movies got better once Tom Cruise stopped being touchy about his short stature and allowed his character to be put in situations that emphasized how short...

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That time when Angry Asian Man made enough noise to keep the live-action...

Phil Yu of Angry Asian ManThis is the fifth of 12 or 13 all-new blog posts that are being posted on a monthly basis until this blog's final post in December 2017 (the Ghost Protocol repost does not...

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Electric Boogaloo entertainingly looks back at Cannon Films, the Fyre...

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 1985 Cannon flick Lifeforce.This is the sixth of 12 or 13 all-new...

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Okja is two hours of Bong Joon-ho's usual boldness, plus Jake Gyllenhaal...

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 2017.I love the work of Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho. Based on a...

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Why I left BuzzFe... er, I mean, why I got the fuck away from terrestrial radio

Baby DriverThis is the eighth of 12 or 13 all-new blog posts that are being posted on a monthly basis until this blog's final post in December 2017.Named after a Simon & Garfunkel tune that's like...

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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of Last Week: Rick and Morty, "Pickle Rick"

This is the ninth of 13 all-new blog posts that are being posted until this blog's final post in December 2017. Occasionally on Friday, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I...

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What Game of Thrones needs more than dragonglass is Henry Louis Gates Jr., so...

This is the 10th of 13 or 14 all-new blog posts that are being posted until this blog's final post in December 2017.Game of Thrones, the most popular TV show in the world right now, is a show I've been...

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Bruno Mars loves Mary Jane: Zendaya from Spider-Man: Homecoming accidentally...

This is the 11th of 13 or 14 all-new blog posts that are being posted on a monthly basis until this blog's final post in December 2017.WARNING: Spoilers for Spider-Man: Homecoming ahead.In this...

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Bad Rap is a timely and often funny look at Asian American rappers who want...

Dumbfoundead in Bad RapThis is the 12th of 14 or 15 all-new blog posts that are being posted on a monthly basis until this blog's final post in December 2017.Back in 2011, I typed out an outline for a...

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I Can't Believe I've Never Seen It Till Now!: House (1977)

This is the 13th of 15 all-new blog posts that are being posted on a monthly basis until this blog's final post in December 2017. I know I said "monthly basis" all through 2017, and instead, there...

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The problem with The Problem with Apu is that not enough people are going to...

This is the last all-new blog post before this blog's absolute final post in December 2017.Fuck all these (predominantly white) superheroes fighting motion-capture-enhanced (and often boring)...

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Fuckity-bye

Too many blogs I've enjoyed reading have been abandoned by authors who abruptly quit posting new content, and too many of those blogs have never even bothered to say farewell to their readers. That's...

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I'm back for one post only to plug my first book, If You Haven't Seen It,...

So much shit has happened since the time I wrote my final blog post here in 2017. A pandemic that's killed so many. The current and upsetting rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans. An unfortunate...

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