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Category: Debaser

  • Sarah Silverman: A Speck of Dust

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    I’ve been disappointed by a lot of stand-up comedy specials of late, but I was happy to laugh pretty much from start to finish while watching Sarah Silverman’s new Netflix special. Sure, you need to be a fan of her dark/crass comedy, but if you are, this is pretty classic Sarah, and I loved it.

  • Rakka

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    I’ve been really excited to watched the shorts promised by Oats Studios — the new studio started by Neill Blomkamp — and the first one, Rakka, is really great. It’s made up of vignettes of a future Earth that has been invaded by aliens, and it’s cool to see Sigourney Weaver take part. It’s part…

  • Peggy Sue Got Married

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    It’s not an amazing movie or anything, but it was still fun to watch. It feels magical and innocent, like a lot of mid-80s movies do, and yes, Nicolas Cage is weird even back then — and it’s sort of funny to think that he was playing heartthrob (although with a weirdo bent) roles back…

  • Running Scared

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    I had a hard time watching this. It’s not necessarily a bad movie, but I just wasn’t into it, and it took me quite a few sessions to get through it — and I admittedly watched most of it in the background while doing something else. It did feel like a deep cut when I…

  • GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling

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    After I was done watching the new GLOW series on Netflix, I saw that they also had a documentary on the actual GLOW of the 80s, and so I watched it today. Definitely worth a watch, whether you’ve watched the new Netflix series or not. Strangely, even though I quite liked pro wrestling back in…

  • Arms

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    When it first got announced, I liked what I saw in terms of the general aesthetic of the game — the same thing I liked about Splatoon at first — but didn’t think it was a game I’d really want to play, as I just don’t tend to play fighting games a lot. But I…

  • Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

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    For some reason it’s been months since I’ve added games played to my Debaser diary, so I’m going to start trying to play a bit of catch up. First up, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which I got on release, and which I still play quite regularly. It’s a testament to how much I love this…

  • Heartbreak Ridge

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    I watched this one over a month ago but forgot to include it here. It’s good in the way that army training movies tend to be (it’s an easy conceit to build something around), and it doesn’t break any new grounds or anything, and other movies have done it better (ahem, Full Metal Jacket), but…

  • Rad

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    I think I sorta remember hearing about this movie back then, but I don’t think I had watched it, and it wasn’t something I was planning on watching during my 1986 movie marathon, but it got suggested by a friend of mine, and I’m glad I followed his recommendation. Look, this is not a good…

  • Manhunter

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    Juste like The Name of the Rose, this is another movie from 1986 that has aged very well. It always gets unfairly compared to The Silence of the Lambs (or later Red Dragon, from which it is an actual adaptation of), and Silence certainly is a classic in its own right, but this is great…