Author: Matthew MacDonald
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The ABC’s of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)
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Read more: The ABC’s of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)Having just survived a year of multiple ER visits, stomach-churning injuries, multiple Cronenberg-squicky exams and, most recently, a gnarly hernia surgery I am recovering from as I pound out this screed…
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The ABC’s of Breakups
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Read more: The ABC’s of BreakupsSex Memories: The only worthwhile wreckage from a dramatic split are those moments, etched in your gray matter, of tangled limbs, colliding…
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Under the Burning Sun (2025)
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Read more: Under the Burning Sun (2025)Under the Burning Sun is George Miller’s Furiosa meets Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge, with echoes of I Spit On Your Grave and Boys Don’t Cry, the (literal) water carried by a lead performance reminiscent of Jodie Foster’s Nell.
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Ferris Bueller’s Almost Forty (1986)
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Read more: Ferris Bueller’s Almost Forty (1986)What I’ll be describing is a fresh impression of the film, from a viewing I attended last night with my mom. Cinemas here in California do a thing on Tuesday evenings, where films deemed “classic” by some combination of awards tally, cult fandom, and re-watchability are presented in high-res digital projections, either restored, upscaled, or…
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Extraction, USA (2024)
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Read more: Extraction, USA (2024)As a relative newcomer to the human dynamo that is writer-producer-director-editor-cinematographer-actor Leanne Johnson, I need to know what goes into her pre-workout shaker bottle.
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Chowchilla (2023)
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Read more: Chowchilla (2023)Let’s unbury the lead before diving into the review itself: During the summer of 1976, in the Central Californian agricultural town of Chowchilla, twenty-six children and their adult bus driver were kidnapped by three armed men.
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If Anything Happens I Love You (2020)
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Read more: If Anything Happens I Love You (2020)Via Netflix, I first watched this heart-pulverizing work of short-film animation a handful of years ago. It leveled me…
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Mickey Hardaway (2023)
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Read more: Mickey Hardaway (2023)My heart roars out to micro budget indie features, where every aspect of talent involved does their darndest to make the overall production shine.
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Working in Mental Health Might Ruin Your Mental Health
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Read more: Working in Mental Health Might Ruin Your Mental HealthChewed up, spat out, sucked back in, further masticated, coughed up as a thrashing babe terrified of the rising sun. The whole fucking point was to help other people with mental illness and…Christ weren’t you naive?
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Nyad (2023)
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Read more: Nyad (2023)“Do you know how exhausting you can be as a friend?” These words drop, with bruised affection, from the mouth of athletic legend Diana Nyad’s best friend and confidante-cum-coach Bonnie Stoll, in the third act break of Netflix Studios’ 2023 biopic, Nyad. Even if you have never felt like saying this to someone, or if…