Traveling alone isn’t for everyone, but it suits me just fine. I like being in control of my time without having to depend on anyone else. And I tend to walk/hike more than humanly possible so sometimes it’s best to only have to worry about punishing my own body. I knew my trip to Japan would be solo. I booked it sort of on a whim and once I purchased a rail pass, I knew that a big chunk of my time would be spent going around.
Quirk sometimes plays better in a trailer than in an actual film. A bite-size nugget of peculiarity is more palatable than an exhaustive two-hours of it, and while the trailer for Lady Bird suggests a movie full of quirk, there’s that shot from the opening scene where the titular character jumps out of a moving car to end an argument with her mother, but what is truly great about Lady Bird the film is how every single moment is played for honesty over anything else.
Despite my self-admitted fanboyism of all things superhero in general and Marvel in specific, I can be either instantly engaged with the latest men in tights flick or overly critical. The truth is, I haven’t liked more Marvel movies than I’ve loved. The first two Thor movies were crap, aside from perfect casting there is nothing I enjoyed in three Iron Man movies, save for thirty seconds of Black Widow in number 2 (the worst of the three). I was disappointed in the first Captain America and Doctor Strange. The trailers for Thor: Ragnarok painted a different picture for the third installment of the Asgardian thunder god, a more lighthearted and on the road style flick. In short, Ragnarok is easily the funniest movie in the MCU, and second only to Deadpool in comedy in the overall superhero library.
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Essentially a buddy cop movie where a young Thurgood Marshall (Chadwick Boseman, though for some reason I first typed Bojack Horseman), while working for the NAACP, partners with a local Jewish attorney, Sam Friedman (Josh Gad), to defend a wrongfully-accused black man (Sterling K. Brown) for the rape of a married white woman (Kate Hudson). Marshall is silenced by the court, only non-litigator Friedman is allowed to speak, and they must work together, reluctantly at first, in order to figure out the truth. It’s an interesting concept to hang on the story of one of the greatest orators of the modern age – follow the court case where he isn’t allowed to speak, but it also made me a little uncomfortable: taking a black man’s story and putting a white face on it to make it more palatable.
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excellent awkward 