Hannah Long

Andor Understands that Politics Is About Love A spy rediscovers the Force that holds the universe together. Read More...

I wrote about #Andor and transcendence. In the show, the most frightening thought is that the world has a ceiling of steel—imperial steel, beyond which no transmissions can reach. But the characters know there’s something out there, listening.
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'Midnight Run' at 30: In Praise of the 'Casablanca' of Buddy Comedies 'Midnight Run' turns 30: Alan Sepinwall on why this Robert De Niro/Charles Grodin buddy comedy is an endlessly rewatchable classic.

7/11/88: Midnight Run, w/DeNiro & Grodin
Rare action/comedy that slows things down, w/much to say
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@oliviarutigliano.bsky.social: crimereads.com/midnight-run/
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@sepinwall.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Yeah, pretty much. Don't quite understand the raves. I'm glad people are going out to see unusual serious movies again, though! Hopefully this isn't a fluke.

“For every shit, there’s six nice people.”
I went long on MIDNIGHT RUN, which takes as its thesis that throwaway line by Charles Grodin's "Duke."

A small humanist triumph.
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