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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ken Ilgunas
- Jul 26, 2023
Mission Impossible kinda sucks, so consume this stuff instead…
Films Daughters of the Dust (1991, USA) This is one of the most surprising movies I’ve ever watched. It's about a group of...