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You see he was writing at the same time as TH White when the average fantasy novel was more A. Merritt's The Ship of Ishtar than LoTR and his Middle Earth was more like Erle Stanley Gardner making Perry Mason a lawyer rather than a hard-boiled detective than anything else https://t.co/ZOCrYScoAT

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#Rosaline, Karen Maine's light-footed adaptation of Rebecca Serle's wantonly-wonderfully anachronistic Romeo + Juliet riff When You Were Mine, is a fun funny effortlessly engaging romcom romp wherein Kaitlyn Dever in particular has an unlawfully good time. https://t.co/y20tUp3PQu

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Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut https://t.co/kBT3DOI9wf

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O' no I am neither kidding nor exaggerating re Clint's affection of Confederate revisionism. Outlaw Josey Wales, for instance, gleefully depicts one of the all time greatest Americans, abolitionist James Henry Lane, as a mustache twirling villain.

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I'd be lying if I told you I hadn’t always un-apologetically kind of loved Robert Greenwald's Xanadu despite itself. Olivia Newton-John was built in a lab for musical fantasy and Gene Kelly does roller disco in it (I am not made of stone) https://t.co/5bvBmwFgeO

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Richard Lester’s two-part adaptation of Alexandre Dumas swashbuckling romantic classic The Three Musketeers is an aggressively mischievous rollicking high adventure, boasting career best work from basically everyone involved https://t.co/E7Av6hEzOv

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So a thing I learned from this was that Alex Garland's The Beach (my personal favorite Gen-X novel and so I'd argue the greatest . ) was not widely read in the states. ( Which actually explains a bunch of jokes you heathens haven't been getting for two decades. https://t.co/zBtmUmHi5x

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Emma Thompson on the romantic comedy: "Romantic comedies are no more formulaic than any other kind of movie. We’re just ruder about them in the same way as what was described even by Jane Austen as 'stupid female literature.'" https://t.co/yGnspeFf2q

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The easiest thing has always been writing The Crying Game off as a stunt, but doing that’s always meant ignoring Neil Jordan’s masterful romantic thriller encased meditation on human nature and identity and the texture of national identity in its entirety. https://t.co/bnFJSfjoBs

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Off to the side, you know who just had a GOOD 2022? Louise Kiely! The casting agent for Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald's miniseries adaptation of Sally Rooney's 2018 novel Normal People. https://t.co/hDKYkSeD0N