The Thirst Games

The Clueless Drinking Game             Clueless more or less shaped the kind of person I wanted to be when I was 10. You pee-standing-up types have your Spiderman’s and Bugs Bunny, I had Cher. As my tribute to this wonderful movie, for your next Thirst Games drinking party (I KNOW that’s a thing), I submit…

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Some Bitch Reviews a Netflix Movie

Winter’s Bone Good googamugum, filterinos. This movie will get your heart pumping. This powerful tale of a teenager from the heart of the impoverished Ozark region fighting like hell to keep what little she and her family have left has come to Netflix. Well, actually it did a while ago, but if you haven’t seen…

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Am I Right Ladies? The Manic Pixie Dream Girls Must Be Stopped

In a 2005 review of the dreadful Elizabethtown, Nathan Rabin coined the term “Manic Pixie Dream Girl”, and hence, there was a beautiful succint term to describe so many cliches. Rabin describes the MPDG as existing “solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its…

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