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Mandy L. Albert

@mandylalbert

PhD from @medvl_cornell, teacher, Star Trek Enterprise podcaster, writer of movie words @AlternateEndng, bleeding heart libertarian. Views are no one’s.

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The important question here, though, is “why is the movie long?” newyorker.com/culture/cultur…
In Praise of the Long Movie

In Praise of the Long Movie

In the right hands, a three-hour-plus film expands the boundaries of cinematic possibilities.

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Is it long because the director needs room to thoroughly explore the visual and auditory possibilities of this story and situation? Bring on those butt-numbing runtimes. Is it long because it ends with an artless 30-minute CGI fight scene? Burn it in hell.
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Y’all have to listen to THE DEBUTANTE on Audible. This is a WILD ride.
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Good effing riddance to STAR TREK PICARD. What a complete turkey of a show.
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Seasons 1 and 2 were unwatchable nonsense. Season 3 is better, but it’s still substituting emotionally manipulative nostalgia bait for good storytelling.
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Eleanor Audley, Lady Tremaine AND Maleficent.
Roy📚 (@RoyReadsManga) profile pictureRoy📚@RoyReadsManga21 Apr 2023
What voice actor crushed a role so hard that nobody else will be able to live up to it?
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Without government, who would throw people in prison for being inconvenient to them?
Spike Cohen (@RealSpikeCohen) profile pictureSpike Cohen
@RealSpikeCohen20 Apr 2023
This is Crosley Green. After being wrongfully imprisoned for 30 years, 19 of them on death row, his conviction was overturned and he was set free. He's now been ordered to go back to prison, for the crime he didn't commit.
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I’ve defended DeSantis for things like his approach to disaster management, but this is psychotic.
Scott Gustin (@ScottGustin) profile pictureScott Gustin
@ScottGustin17 Apr 2023
DeSantis openly speculating about what the state could build next to Walt Disney World: “Someone even said, maybe you need another state prison…”
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Emma Flint (flint.writes on Threads)📚💀🖤📚 (@flint_writes) profile pictureEmma Flint (flint.writes on Threads)📚💀🖤📚@flint_writes16 Apr 2023
Type the year you were born into a GIF search.
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What a great name for a band.
Jesse Aaron Paul ☀ (@JesseAPaul) profile pictureJesse Aaron Paul ☀@JesseAPaul14 Apr 2023
🚨 State Rep. Richard Holtorf, R-Akron, just referred to marijuana as the "devil's lettuce" on the Colorado House floor. 🚨 #copolitics #coleg
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This season of STAR TREK PICARD is insulting garbage, but that’s what they’re going to keep making when the people who get paid to write TV criticism keep lapping it up because OMG GEORDI AND DATA AND WORF AND THE ENTERPRISE DEEEEEE 😻😻😻
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Look, I get it. I love stupid emotionally manipulative things sometimes too. But if you’re being paid to be a critic, you need to be a damn critic.
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There has never been a video game made more specifically for me than PENTIMENT.
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RETURN OF THE OBRA DINN was close but contained no illuminated manuscripts.
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what
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WHAT
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I very extremely hate having a governor who wants to be the President.
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GET OUT is not even the best film made by Jordan Peele.
Letterboxd (@letterboxd) profile pictureLetterboxd
@letterboxd6 Apr 2023
📈 @THR’s critics name the 50 best films of the 21st century so far View the full list here: boxd.it/m9jAE
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Happy almost-Passover! Your liberty is your birthright as a human being. Governments don’t give that; they either take it away or stop taking it away.
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As we approach Passover I would like to maintain once again that the so-called Wicked Child did nothing wrong.
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“What does this mean to you?” is a perfectly legitimate question. Ceremonies mean different things to different people. Why you gotta be a big jerk about it, Rabbi?
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Did you ever see a creature so satisfied
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TWIN PEAKS was so good. Why didn’t anyone tell me how good it was until like 2 years ago?
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These people are a menace and have no business touching literature.
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How many stomach bugs is it normal for a toddler to bring home in a year? More or fewer than 750?
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Advocates for #classicaleducation need to disavow this nonsense immediately and firmly. Comments like the ones made here by the board chairman reflect poorly on the whole enterprise, and it’s too important to become another moronic political slogan-slinging contest.
Slate (@Slate) profile pictureSlate
@Slate23 Mar 2023
1/ A Florida charter school principal was forced to resign after three parents complained about an art teacher showing a picture of Michelangelo’s sculpture of David. @dankois talked with the school board’s chair about what happened ⬇️ slate.com/human-interest/202…
An Interview With the School Board Chair Who Forced Out a Principal After Michelangelo’s David Was...

An Interview With the School Board Chair Who Forced Out a Principal After Michelangelo’s David Was...

"Well, we’re Florida, OK?"

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Classical ed must *not* become something exclusively for conservative Christians. That will be its death knell. We are idiots who deserve to lose this fight if we push away parents and teachers who aren’t yet on board.
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