Bob Strauss
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Bob Strauss covers film and television for the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times' The Envelope, The Wrap and whoever else will pay him.
Los Angeles
Joined May 2009
#NoOtherChoice displays #ParkChanwook's humor at its dry and drollest, then somehow builds into a slapstick black comedy of uproarious proportions. #SquidGame's tough guy #LeeByunghun is marvelous as a meek salaryman who does not take unemployment well. Ruthless Korean fun.
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#TheTestamentOfAnnLee is a one-of-a-kind musical biopic about the 18th Century leader of the #Shakers religious sect. #amandaseyfried indeed transcends as the troubled visionary, while director #MonaFastvold acknowledges the craziness while respecting the characters' beliefs.
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#TimothéeChalamet leaves it all on the table as #MartySupreme , a hyperactive and utterly untrustworthy 1950s ping pong hustler. Hilarious as he is monstrous, Chalamet's characterization is as impressive as his apparent table tennis skills. Supporting class is off the charts, too
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Children used to worry they’d get a lump of coal in their stocking. But in this deep red Pennsylvania town, coal is exactly what the children are hoping to get
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The #AnacondaMovie reboot is an affectionately meta thing with industry in-jokes, a pretty good-looking giant snake and #JackBlack a little more restrained than recently (until he isn't). I smiled a lot. Full review:
sfchronicle.com
Jack Black and Paul Rudd elevate the “Anaconda” reboot into a funny, self-aware monster movie that’s sharper and more entertaining than expected.
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#SongSungBlue's most impressive achievement is how it makes those of us who consider #NeilDiamond lame eager to hear the next song. My review:
sfchronicle.com
Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson shine in the latest from Craig Brewer, a Neil Diamond tribute movie that turns kitsch into something sincere, funny and surprisingly moving.
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Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.
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In a very "the Anglo-Saxons send their regards" kind of moment, the Novoshakhtinsky refinery, one of the largest in southern Russia, has just been smashed to bits by British Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
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It’s incredible how statistically illiterate they are. This chart shows that the crime rate, i.e. *a per capita figure*, is lower for both legal and undocumented immigrants. You cannot add together two separate per capita figures, lol.
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no federal funding for MIT until half the faculty in the department of biology are creationists
A crazy idea would be a mandate that federal funding for universities can only happen when/if the ideological balance of its professors are within +/- 20%. Any institutions that opts out/takes zero funding from the federal government (ie from taxpayers) can still do whatever
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Rembrandt van Rijn Moses Smashing the Tablets of the Law, 1659
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