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      <image:caption>A common refrain about this adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland is “They don’t make movies like this anymore.” That’s the truth. This film feels like a throwback to the 1970s when directors were given huge budgets to make films about uncomfortable subjects and morally ambiguous characters. Like those films, it has you enthralled, terrified, and laughing at different points throughout its 162-minute runtime.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - My Favorite Writing in This Year’s Oscar Nominees - Sinners (16 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay)</image:title>
      <image:caption>If you grew up in the 1990s, chances are you have watched Robert Rodriguez’s and Quentin Tarantino’s From Dusk till Dawn, maybe even more than once. In watching Sinners, I could not help but wonder if Ryan Coogler once saw this grindhouse picture about two bank robbers finding themselves in a biker bar run by vampires and decided he could do this on a much more epic and socially important scale. Either way, he did just that and may come away with several Oscars.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - My Favorite Writing in This Year’s Oscar Nominees - Bugonia (Four nominations, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay)</image:title>
      <image:caption>Director Yorgos Lanthimos’s most accessible film will have you questioning who is telling the truth, who is delusional, and who is flat out lying all the way to the end. That is a testament to Emma Stone’s and Jesse Plemons’ performances, but also Will Tracy’s script.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - My Favorite Writing in This Year’s Oscar Nominees - The Secret Agent (Four nominations, including Best Picture and Best International Feature Film)</image:title>
      <image:caption>The legend of the Hairy Leg came about during the Brazilian military dictatorship when newspapers would use it to take the place of stories that were censored by the government and give their readers a nod to what had happened. It is used as an anchor in this story of resisting an authoritarian regime.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>When you think of this movie, you remember the kids running and Amy Madigan’s terrifying performance. However, what makes it truly resonate is the way it shows how an unspeakable tragedy causes a seemingly normal town to unravel.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This film about former Iranian political prisoners kidnapping the man they believed was their torturer is even more remarkable when you learn that it was filmed in secret in the Islamic Republic. It is hard to believe that would have been possible without a topnotch script.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>All of the movies I have just mentioned are pretty easy to stream. When you get a chance to watch this movie that is still in theaters about a group of European ravers traveling across North Africa as World War III breaks out, I suggest you take time to do so.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Perhaps the most on-the-nose title on this list, the plot to this short is exactly what it sounds like, and it is hilarious. But you don’t have to take my word for it. You can take 12 minutes and watch it right here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxpjzOLVRR0</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This is a masterclass in storytelling, but if I share any more, it will give away the plot of this 17-minute film.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mary Shelley’s novel has been adapted in some form or fashion more than 400 times, but none have captured its true message and feel. While Kenneth Branagh’s comes the closest in following it scene-for-scene, Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation does the best job capturing the spirit of the original book.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This book won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and humanizes the first U.S. president, who has been mythologized in the 250 years since the country was founded</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - My Five-Star Books for 2025 - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (1939)</image:title>
      <image:caption>The best-selling mystery novel of all time has been adapted numerous times for television, film, and theater. However, none pack as much of a punch as the original source material.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - My Five-Star Books for 2025 - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938)</image:title>
      <image:caption>I will admit that I had seen the Alfred Hitchcock-directed adaptation of this gothic tale that won the Academy Award for Best Picture before I read the book. That being said, I still could not put it down.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - My Five-Star Books for 2025 - Make it stand Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich by Volker Ullrich (2021)</image:title>
      <image:caption>Ullrich constructs the final eight days of Nazi Germany in the aftermath of Adolf Hitler’s suicide. It is a terrifying account of a descent into madness, not just for the citizens, but for the conquering armies as well.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - My Five-Star Books for 2025 - My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent (2017)</image:title>
      <image:caption>This book about a 14-year-old girl living with an abusive father is not for the faint of heart, but it is beautifully written and perfectly paced.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - My Five-Star Books for 2025 - American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (2005)</image:title>
      <image:caption>Another Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography, this book took Bird and Sherwin 25 years to write, and it shows in the level of detail that they provide.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>So, Garth Marenghi is not a real person. He is a fictional author created by comedian Matthew Holness, and his specialty is pulpy horror that is written to be hilariously bad. No other book made me laugh harder in 2025 than this one.</image:caption>
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