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Jacob Licklider CR: Temptation of the Force
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Trumpet player, Doctor Who fan, actual scientist I guess, and Cyclops. Has a comics podcast. He/him.

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Blow (2001) - Really wants to be Goodfellas with very little style.

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A ★★ review of Blow (2001)
Blow is Goodfellas but instead of the Italian American mafia it is Pablo Escobar’s cocaine empire.  Instead of the sublime direction of Martin Scorsese it is the direction of Ted Demme who at points m...
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December 11, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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V for Vendetta (2005) - Alan Moore kind of justified for hating this but it’s still really good.

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A ★★★★ review of V for Vendetta (2005)
I write this review knowing that praising this film in the wrong circles may in fact catch the eye of a certain wizard who has a completely valid ire at adaptation of his works. His complaints about V...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Finding Forrester (2000) - Good Will Hunting but less romantic and more cynical.

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A ★★★½ review of Finding Forrester (2000)
Gus Van Sant uses Finding Forrester to essentially play at several of the themes in Good Will Hunting three years earlier.  While that was a film that sang Boston, Finding Forrester screams New York C...
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December 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Dare You by: Lisa McMullin: Last one set on the Powell Estate because it’s so obvious these first three were meant to be a themed box set. The setting and dealing with the relationships between Rose and Jackie post Father’s Day there is a tendency for this story to feel a little similar to Snare.
December 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Christmas: It’s a Wonderful War and Other Stories: The second holiday anthology while not quite reaching as many highs as Halloween just lets four very unique stories to thrive. Setting it around Christmas may be slightly more limiting than Halloween (horror is a genre while Christmas is more a
December 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Christmas: It’s a Wonderful War by: Jonathan S. Powell: And we’re closing the set with a pastiche of It’s a Wonderful Life set on a planet during the Time War so instead of a guardian angel there is a rather desperate Eighth Doctor working in the background to save this colony led by a man. The big
December 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Christmas: Presents of Mind by: Mark Wright: This one’s a Smith and Sullivan adventure and is honestly just fine. It’s very much in the spirit of the new series Christmas specials so it’s very upbeat and full of festive cheer. The cast is small, Sadie Miller, Christopher Naylor, and Annette
December 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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A River Runs Through It (1992) - Redford’s a good director but just isn’t as interesting as his previous work

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A ★★★½ review of A River Runs Through It (1992)
Only Robert Redford could shoot a gorgeous movie that makes me want to go fly fishing…almost.  I don’t have the patience for fishing.  A River Runs Through It is this nice little coming of age drama t...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Christmas: Legacy of Blood by: Julian Richards: The second story in the Christmas anthology is a tribute to Jago & Litefoot led by Lisa Bowerman as Ellie Higson. It’s a story that delves a little closer into the horror aspects of the holiday, it’s all about vampires and you definitely should have
December 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown (1992) - It's fine, but really unfocused.

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A ★★★ review of It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown (1992)
You know I haven't actually seen It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown despite it being the second side of a double sided DVD I had as a kid (I think). Or if I had I honestly forgot it and that's pr...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) - The perfect little Christmas special.

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A ★★★★★ review of A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
It's been bitterly cold and snowy so I decided to curl up and rewatch something I haven't seen since I was a kid. I always appreciated A Charlie Brown Christmas but I don't think I ever realized how f...
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December 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Matt Fraction is making decisions that I particularly love in this month’s #Batman but I do hope each issue remains new reader friendly.
Crocs on a treadmill? Really?

@newt5996.bsky.social and I continue our coverage of #Batman on the latest Fresh-Faced One Shot!

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December 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Crocs on a treadmill? Really?

@newt5996.bsky.social and I continue our coverage of #Batman on the latest Fresh-Faced One Shot!

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December 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment (1975) - A fine serial which would be better with a stronger climax but hey circumstance got in the way.

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A ★★½ review of Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment (1975)
The Sontaran Experiment is perfectly okay as a serial.  It runs about 50 minutes and doesn’t actually reveal the Sontaran Styre until the cliffhanger, though at least the experiments are there.  The b...
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December 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This week's #StarTrek The Next Generation is a script that has some interesting ideas but they're all underdeveloped and the conclusion has Riker basically do a murder. This is The Vengeance Factor:

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December 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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My #LastFourWatched has been trying to finish this list of “coming of age films” recommended by coworkers who only seem to know what coming of age means half the time.
December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Dammit, Eddy Barrows made me like long hair Joker

@newt5996.bsky.social and I continue our coverage of #Superman on the latest Fresh-Faced One Shot!

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December 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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My Girl (1991) - Cute little romance that will make you hate the bees.

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A ★★★ review of My Girl (1991)
My Girl is an oddly cute little coming of age film that in the third act takes this wild twist that somehow has become an internet meme in certain circles. Thematically the twist works, though the scr...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:11 AM
We’re covering the Thor comics before the outrage machine took over and made this run infamous. Also anti-capitalism and a wereminotaur. Get your questions in below because this arc will make me sound super dumb.
TONIGHT: @newt5996.bsky.social and I are recording the next episode of Fresh-Faced Comics, talking about #Thor The Last Days of Midgard!

Send any questions or comments below and we'll discuss them on the podcast! :)
December 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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TONIGHT: @newt5996.bsky.social and I are recording the next episode of Fresh-Faced Comics, talking about #Thor The Last Days of Midgard!

Send any questions or comments below and we'll discuss them on the podcast! :)
December 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Look I try to be analytical but Snyder and Williamson are doing a dumb tournament arc and it’s way too fun.
Superman could really use a hand here...

@newt5996.bsky.social and I continue our coverage of #DC K.O. on the latest Fresh-Faced One Shots!

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December 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Superman could really use a hand here...

@newt5996.bsky.social and I continue our coverage of #DC K.O. on the latest Fresh-Faced One Shots!

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December 4, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Saving Private Ryan (1998) - Spielberg is doing this balancing act that really works.

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A ★★★★½ review of Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Steven Spielberg’s war epic Saving Private Ryan is a film from a filmmaker who knows war is both hell but also that World War II is, often rightly, mythologized as people standing up to the great evil...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:27 AM
It’s very weird that in a very aimless miniseries there’s this incredibly strong two issue subplot about Jason Todd as Robin.
As ever, Jason Todd did nothing wrong.

@newt5996.bsky.social and I continue our coverage of Trinity: Daughter of #WonderWoman on the latest Fresh-Faced One Shot!

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December 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM