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Kirsten and Natalie #3: Jumanji (1995) and Mars Attacks! (1996)
In which Kirsten Dunst gets lost amid some special effects and Natalie Portman learns to love being weird
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Cowboy Bebop: "Ballad of Fallen Angels" and "Sympathy for the Devil"
In which I have no idea what's going on, but I love that for me
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Cowboy Bebop: "Honky Tonk Woman" and "Gateway Shuffle"
In which I think about what it means for TV to be "cinematic"
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How to make roast chicken
The cis version of myself from an alternate universe tells us how she met Hubby David
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The Matrix Resurrections resonates with trans stories told across generations
The fourth film in the venerable sci-fi franchise locks in to the ways trans people see themselves in each other.
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My neighbor Fox Mulder
The truth is out there, and it's a cat shaped like a bus
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The unexpected brilliance of Livia Soprano's final onscreen appearance
A much-mocked visual effects sequence uses the odd and uncanny to incredible effect.
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Cowboy Bebop: "Asteroid Blues" and "Stray Dog Strut"
In which I wax philosophical about procedural worldbuilding
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Kirsten and Natalie #2: Little Women (1994) and Beautiful Girls (1996)
The movies and precocious girl children, explained.
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What's up for Episodes in 2022
We're switching some things up
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11 rad things I wrote in 2021
In a really cruddy year, I still wrote some things I was proud of
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The Bake Sale Bunch #17: Sophie Saves Christmas
Excerpts from the classic book series about a bunch of trans women who love to bake (sale)