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The Secrets of Dumbledore
June 12, 2022
HIGHLIGHT FEATURE

The Three‑Body Problem of ‘The Secrets of Dumbledore’

The final installment of the 'Fantastic Beasts' trilogy is a welcome evolution in the way gay men are portrayed in mass-market cinema. Sadly, there are other considerable problems that prevent it from its full potential as an instrument of change....

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Catholic SCOTUS
May 16, 2022
CULTURAL CONVERSATION, KILLOUGH CHRONICLES

SCOTUS: A Thousand Inquisitions Now

A Times opinion piece prompts concern that so many devout Catholics on the Supreme Court, kneeling to the world's only absolute monarch, might be an existential threat to America's foundational ethos....

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Colin Farrell After Yang
March 24, 2022
CONTENT CREATION, THE INDIA FILES

Quick Crit: ‘After Yang,’ ‘WeCrashed,’ and Tarun Tahiliani

This week's sample-sized reviews of random filmed content gets personal. If anyone's ever wondered just how big and fat the Indian wedding market is in monetary terms, we were there for its birth as a real industry in 1988....

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Russia Fascist State
March 11, 2022
CULTURAL CONVERSATION

It’s Time to Start Using the F‑Word About Russia

Why is it that people constantly use 'fascist' for staunch liberal democracies like America and Israel, but not Russia and China? They consistently meet textbook definitions of the F-word, but nobody's reading....

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Vladimir Putin as Josef Stalin
March 2, 2022
CULTURAL CONVERSATION

All Solid on the Western Front

Just as Trump was a four-year stress test of the strength of American democracy, Putin is showing those who doubted the cohesion of the Free World that it has never been weak, or truly threatened....

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January 23, 2022
CONTENT CREATION

‘1883’ and Its Pretzels of Conflict Between Anglos and Euros

Only midseason, the subtext about American cultural and racial relationships Taylor Sheridan's prequel to 'Yellowstone,' are already intellectually weighty enough for a few dissertations....

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Paolo Sorrentino's The Hand of God
January 1, 2022
CONTENT CREATION

Oscar 2022: La Grande Tristezza of ‘The Hand of God’

In his most personal film to date, Paolo Sorrentino is too timid in confronting the depth of his grief, seemingly embarrassed of eliciting pathos. With more a truthful rawness, it could've been a masterpiece....

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Nicole Kidman Javier Bardem in Being the Ricardos
December 22, 2021
CONTENT CREATION

‘Being the Ricardos’ Tries Not to be About Cancel Culture. It Is.

Aaron Sorkin had the opportunity to create an incendiary cautionary tale about the terrors of wokeism, but he pulls back and plays it safe, even in interviews. So meta....

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December 19, 2021
CULTURAL CONVERSATION, KILLOUGH CHRONICLES

One of Those Many Times I Forgot Myself

A gay man crushes on some of "the most beautiful women in the world" in an era before sexual fluidity....

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Kristen Stewart Diana in Pablo Larraín Spencer
November 12, 2021
CONTENT CREATION, FILM & TELEVISION

‘Spencer’: Through a Looking‑Glass, Darkly

The short 'n sweet about Pablo Larraín's 'Spencer,' Will Sharpe's 'The Electrical Life of Luis Main,' and 'Kin,' with Charlie Cox....

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james_killough James Killough @james_killough ·
22 Jun

.@nytimes I'm a white "old India hand" Westerner, a Hindi speaker who writes about his experiences in the subcontinent, and I would never say that someone has a "Bengali baby face," unless I were quoting him.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/22/magazine/sabyasachi-profile.html?smid=url-share

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21 Jun

Been a week since I posted Part 1 of a piece about the basis of Call Me By Your Name. Given the 30+ minute reading length of each part, reader stats are healthy. Could reach far more. Suggestions @Medium? Or only more how-to listicles?

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https://james-killough.medium.com/will-the-real-elio-perlman-please-stand-up-part-one-825a5516e7f

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18 Jun

@james_killough has absolutely destroyed me with this brilliant 2 part article. Part 2 here in particular was hard to finish but so worth it. https://link.medium.com/WrUUSPSUXqb

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james_killough James Killough @james_killough ·
15 Jun

Curious what percentage pedos and other sex abusers are atheists. The one semi-legit, albeit philosophically bankrupt, excuse fundie Protestants and Catholics give for their purpose in society is to help people lead moral lives. Bonkers.
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29 May

.@nytimes A static photo of a Ukrainian soldier with an assault rifle right below your Uvalde coverage is nobody's idea of common sense and sensibility.

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