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a weak adaptation that loses much of the charm that made the adapted book, loveboat taipei, endearing in its setting (for whatever it lacked in good characters)

films   ·   Dec 16, 2023


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call this reality tv for nerds

shows   ·   Nov 21, 2023 – Nov 24, 2023


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continuing the trend of watching poor adaptations of young adult novels i read ten years ago

films   ·   Sep 19, 2023


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still not certain this wasn't a halloween movie

films   ·   Aug 30, 2023


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considering this a religious experience

audio   ·   Aug 4, 2023


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science avengers, double feature.

films   ·   Aug 1, 2023

she's everything.


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the scene where barbie is lied flat on the grass.

films   ·   Jul 24, 2023

you dream in a language i can't understand. it's like there's this whole place inside you i can't go.


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about what you mean to other people even when you're not meant to be. favorite movie in the a24 style all year.

films   ·   Jul 19, 2023


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excellent casting, obscene humour. the riotous young asian-american female comedy that has never really been done before.

films   ·   Jul 12, 2023


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warned by multiple movie-goers that this ends in a cliffhanger; the film kept going and going and then never really resolved itself as it kept expanding its multiverse further.

films   ·   Jul 7, 2023


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ending a deeply nerdy and unabashed representation of a girl trying to make it through high school

shows   ·   Jun 29, 2023 – Jul 4, 2023


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having a thing about asian-american rage

shows   ·   Jun 25, 2023 – Jun 27, 2023


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i truly knew nothing about this music when i head in and ... i'm still not certain about what i watched

audio   ·   Jun 7, 2023


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read this on a train in taiwan and i'm still reeling

books   ·   Apr 19, 2023


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the snl phenom, gender-swapped, significantly less funny. the book tries too hard to subvert the trope it is embracing, and then stumbles into rancid, molten cheese.

books   ·   Apr 12, 2023

you say that because it’s the easiest thing to say at this moment—not because it’s true.


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books   ·   Feb 1, 2023 – Feb 8, 2023


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mothers living out their dreams through their daughters, physics, competition, boy on zamboni

films   ·   Feb 5, 2023


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eat (taste) the rich, it’s on the menu. takes the fussy, overcomplicated setting of an elevated tasting menu and farms its guests for the table. the characters aren’t particularly developed, but they fill in nicely within the seating chart.

films   ·   Jan 6, 2023


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a novel about the eternally online.

books   ·   Jan 6, 2023


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full of spunk and steampunk, in the way victorian-era young adult mysteries were intended

films   ·   Jan 3, 2023

this one, fiction—lets us roam with absolute freedom through the human collective.


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a sister novel to a visit from the goon squad

books   ·   Dec 14, 2022 – Jan 2, 2023

it's been waiting for you.


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audio   ·   Oct 26, 2023

bad idea, right?


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audio   ·   Sep 8, 2023