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A branch of my blog series for movies and other screen media (e.g., series, shorts, and comedy specials).

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13th (2016)

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20180630: This documentary is about mass incarceration, i.e., how the American prison system was created as a form of legal slavery. After ...
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drama

The Thin Blue Line (1988)

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20180624: My favorite visual in this film was the last scene with the rolling cassette tape. Randall Dale Adams I was surprised to le...
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Netflix

Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life (2018)

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20180622, 20180704: The main problem with this show was that it came off as disingenuous or scripted. In contrast, other comedy specials I...
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special

Craig Ferguson: Tickle Fight (2017)

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20180620: Apparently I enjoyed this movie enough to note that I gave it a thumbs up. Unfortunately, as of 20190127, I don't remember an...
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Western

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)

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20180620: I saw the first movie, An American Tail , a couple of days ago, and so today I decided to watch the sequel. Fievel (Phillip G...
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tv special

Sarah Silverman: A Speck of Dust (2017)

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20180617: This is the first time I've seen Sarah Silverman perform. Prior to this, I only knew her for her role as Vanellope in Wreck-I...
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physics

Particle Fever (2013)

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20180617: I was recently inspired to start watching more documentaries (approximately one per week) and this is the third after Blackfish a...
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tv series

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

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20180611: Today I started watching Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey . I started it with the caveat that I would not be able to take any notes wi...
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nature

Blackfish (2013)

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20180611: I think the documentary accomplished the appropriate sentiment to strike awareness into a potential problem. In fact, the docu...
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silent

Golden Time (2014)

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20180611: I love excellent shorts, because of the story they are capable of telling in such a short timeframe. An old television set fi...
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sports

Queen of Katwe (2016)

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20180608: I first tried to watch Queen of Katwe on a plane, but encountered video syncing errors and so I ended up watching Miss Peregrine...
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comedy special

Bill Burr: Walk Your Way Out (2017)

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20180607: While I don't like every joke and sometimes I get tired of hearing Bill Burr saying "You know?", he has a lot of gr...
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historical

American Experience: Tesla (2016)

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20180605: My friends and I wanted to start a documentary club* and so I drafted a template where we could keep all our notes. In order to t...
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