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Ken Ilgunas
- May 13
The Prison Movie Hall of Fame and other Consumables
Movies Land and Sons (Iceland, 1980) I don’t know how anyone would access this delightful little film, but I watched it on a connecting...
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Ken Ilgunas
- Jan 31
Barbenheimer stunk. Watch these instead.
Movies Crumb (1994, USA) Crumb and his weirdo brothers make this documentary into a sort of Northeastern Gothic. I haven’t seen many of...
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![The Best Stuff I Consumed - 2023](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6759d9_d665acef104e40a4afd5a32b35a06c7e~mv2.jpeg/v1/fill/w_244,h_183,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/6759d9_d665acef104e40a4afd5a32b35a06c7e~mv2.jpeg)
Ken Ilgunas
- Dec 19, 2023
The Best Stuff I Consumed - 2023
Movies It was a fruitful movie-watching year for me, partly because I had a lot of long flights on United Airlines, which has a...
![To be consumed: UFOs, Caribou, and Killer Angels](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6759d9_699d96676bb244cdaa5cc6d3a1ee9f27~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_244,h_183,fp_0.50_0.50,q_95,enc_auto/6759d9_699d96676bb244cdaa5cc6d3a1ee9f27~mv2.png)
Ken Ilgunas
- Dec 7, 2023
To be consumed: UFOs, Caribou, and Killer Angels
Films Past Lives (2023, US & South Korea) - Just go ahead and give this the Oscar for Best Picture. It’s a beautiful movie about romantic...
![To be consumed: Problematic movies about problematic men](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6759d9_ef83018bef2e4ff591939331ac6991ab~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_244,h_183,fp_0.50_0.50,q_95,enc_auto/6759d9_ef83018bef2e4ff591939331ac6991ab~mv2.png)
Ken Ilgunas
- Nov 5, 2023
To be consumed: Problematic movies about problematic men
Elena (2011, Russian) - I can’t seem to write one of these newsletters without mentioning an Andrey Zvyagintsev film. Zvyagintsev’s Elena...
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![What to Consume: Russian Rot and How to Blow Up a Pipeline](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6759d9_c46d803ff1604e1f9103bf467df63d81~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_244,h_183,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/6759d9_c46d803ff1604e1f9103bf467df63d81~mv2.jpg)
Ken Ilgunas
- Sep 28, 2023
What to Consume: Russian Rot and How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Movies The Return (2003), Leviathan (2014), and Loveless (2017) These are all Russian movies by director Andrey Zvyagintsev. These films...
![Two Months of Consumption: Why We Need Daredevils and the Problem with Pixar](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/6759d9_e5a71c411c754d37baa5cc74cc73f027~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_244,h_183,fp_0.50_0.50,q_95,enc_auto/6759d9_e5a71c411c754d37baa5cc74cc73f027~mv2.png)
Ken Ilgunas
- Feb 8, 2023
Two Months of Consumption: Why We Need Daredevils and the Problem with Pixar
Movies I’ve watched 18 movies in 62 days. If it was up to me, I’d be watching a movie a night, but two a week is not bad for a house...