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MTV is officially ending all of its music channels.

In honour of that, what's your favourite music video?

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December 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Counsellor at Law (1933) is a great legal dramedy that kept me guessing and thoroughly entertained to the end. #MovieReview #FilmSky
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A ★★★★★ review of Counsellor at Law (1933)
This legal dramedy opens with a scene based around the law office's reception area that works to introduce the entire office space, the people who work in it, and the firm's client base. And, honestly...
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December 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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The House on 56th Street (1933) compresses 30 years of an interesting life into a bit over an hour, and it does it well. It's a solid dramatic effort with excellent casting. Worth watching more than once. #MovieReview #FilmSky
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A ★★★½ review of The House on 56th Street (1933)
In a bit over an hour this movie covers nearly three decades of a woman's life. That woman being Peggy (Kay Francis), who when we first meet her she's a chorine with two wealthy beaus: Monte Van Tyle ...
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December 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Dinner at Eight (1933) offers a bunch of great actors portraying characters with intertwined stories. There's humor and pathos as disaster threatens from every angle. The result is an excellent film. #MovieReview #FilimSky
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A ★★★★★ review of Dinner at Eight (1933)
Recipe for a wonderful movie: Start with a bunch of great actors; have them portray characters that play to their strengths; give them a script that weaves their stories together in a continuous wind-...
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December 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Dancing Lady (1933) may not quite have the Busy Berkeley magic, but it has a stronger story than the trio of musicals touched by his magic earlier in the year. And it has a great cast, too. #MovieReview #FilmSky
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A ★★★★½ review of Dancing Lady (1933)
Dancing Lady was MGM's answer to Warner's trio of hit Busby Berkeley musicals from earlier in the year, and it stands up surprisingly well in comparison to those iconic movies. While the choreography ...
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December 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Female (1933) is an exceptional movie, but could have been more if the studio had been allowed to let the story follow logically to its conclusion. #MovieReview #FilmSky
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A ★★★½ review of Female (1933)
This is a very good movie unfortunately harmed by the weak ending required by the censors (then somewhat redeemed by the acknowledgement the filmmakers slipped in). We're presented with a hard-chargin...
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December 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Havana Widows (1933) features the Warner players doing the gold digging bit, this time in Havana. It's manic, it features 30s slang, and the final scene is absolute bedlam. What's not to like? #MovieReview #FilmSky
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A ★★★½ review of Havana Widows (1933)
Get on the Warner Bros. train and hold on to your hat! This one moves pretty fast. It would actually benefit from a few more minutes' runtime to fill in some gaps and make some of the zooming dialogue...
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December 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Bombshell (1933) offers up a brilliant parody of Hollywood care of Jean Harlow and Lee Tracy, both doing some of their best work. Just wonderfully hilarious and surprising stuff. #MovieReview #FilmSky
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A ★★★★★ review of Bombshell (1933)
This parody of Hollywood stars Jean Harlow as a fun-house mirror version of herself alongside Lee Tracy as a publicist with no ethical sense whatsoever. It is, in short, brilliantly funny. Harlow is e...
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December 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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A variation on the consultant grift.
kentremendous.bsky.social Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 23d
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
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Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"

Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Goals.
December 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Wild Boys of the Road (1933) gives a compelling look at what it may have been like for the kids who hit the rails during the Great Depression. The beginning is standard Hollywood fare, but they kept it pretty real for most of the remainder. #MovieReview #FilmSky
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A ★★★★ review of Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
This was a compelling exploration of what a lot of kids did in response to their circumstances during the Great Depression. I didn't think it would be at first, because it started like any of the nume...
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December 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Lady for a Day (1933) is a good version of the story and holdes up against Capra's 1961 remake (Pocketful of Miracles). #MovieReview #FilmSky
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A ★★★★ review of Lady for a Day (1933)
This is, at its heart, a very Capra story. It ends the way a lot of Capra pictures end, and in that way it holds no surprises. But the individual story beats are fun, as are some of the bits of busine...
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November 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Goodbye Again (1933) had me laughing so much I could barely keep up with it at times. Excellent actors and a sharp script make this one a must-watch-again (and again). #MovieReview #FilmSky
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A ★★★★½ review of Goodbye Again (1933)
Warren William and Joan Blondell sit at the center of this one, but just about the whole cast delivers great moments throughout the film. Everyone gets to elicit some laughs and exude some genuine emo...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Torch Singer (1933) would benefit from an ending that's better handled. #MovieReview #FilmSky
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A ★★ review of Torch Singer (1933)
While this movie starts well enough and is headlined by strong actors doing good work, it's undermined by a muddled latter half and an inadequate final scene. The brisk pace the movie takes in setting...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Actually the question that occurs to me is "will you nominate him anyway even after years of people telling you they won't vote for him if you do, and then when you lose as you were warned you would, will you blame not yourselves but the people who warned you."
boobiewankanoobie.bsky.social Boobiewan-kanoobi @boobiewankanoobie.bsky.social · Nov 4
If he ends up being the Democrat on the presidential ticket in 2028, you would rather vote republican or not vote at all because of this issue?? That’s the million dollar question. Not the hill I would die on and def not worth losing an election over!
November 20, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Penthouse (1933) is works well both as a mystery and as a romance. It's well worth watching. #MovieReview #FilmSky
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A ★★★★½ review of Penthouse (1933)
This mystery-romance has a lot going for it. The actors are charismatic (especially Nat Pendleton as the gangster with a heart). The mystery at the heart of it is nicely laid out. And the romance betw...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Rafter Romance (1933) has a fun scenario and a good script, but it's the performances that bring it to the next level. #MovieReview #FilmSky
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A ★★★★½ review of Rafter Romance (1933)
I don't recall seeing anything quite like this before. Here we have a romantic comedy with protagonists (impeccably played by Ginger Rogers and Norman Foster) who are simultaneously antagonists. They ...
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November 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Watched a couple fun romcoms last night on Prime, went to buy DVDs, and of course because both were Amazon Studios, Bezos won't let me own a physical copy.
November 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Beauty for Sale (1933) shows us the prices women can pay when selling their beauty for money or social advantage, but it doesn't shrink from showing the price that true love can sometimes extract. #MovieReview #FilmSky
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A ★★★½ review of Beauty for Sale (1933)
This film is about women who work in a beauty shop, selling beauty products and services to wealthy women. They're also selling their own beauty to wealthy men (which includes their clients' husbands ...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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One Man's Journey (1933) offers up a bit of humor and a couple of surprises along with its overall pleasant afternoon movie vibe. #MovieReview #FilmSky
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A ★★½ review of One Man's Journey (1933)
This is the pleasant story of a man who chooses empathy and care over fame and fortune, and it all works out in the end. There's just not much excitement to be had yere (although the story does have a...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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“The fact the media was discussing the lies, and offering balancing statements, gave them credence in the eyes of many of those the Far Right was looking to manipulate.”
Why I’m Here
A mission statement of a kind
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November 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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New article! I wrote about Mamdani's win and the NYC I once lived in and loved: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/when-i-lov...
When I Loved New York
Will Mamdani bring back the city I remember? Can anyone?
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November 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Turn Back the Clock (1933) explores themes we've seen in countless stories since, but it's handled well enough in this case that the film is still enjoyable. Plus, it's a lot of fun seeing what the 1910s looked like from a 1933 perspective. #MovieReview #FilmSky
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A ★★★★ review of Turn Back the Clock (1933)
Lee Tracy envies the life of a childhood friend, and through a sequence of events ends up getting a chance to find out what would have happened if he'd chosen money instead of love 23 years prior. But...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM