HUNDRED DAYS (The Bengsons; Under the Radar): Yet another "this is our love story" confessional song cycle (with some dialogue thrown in)
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) January 14, 2017
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ASSASSIN’S CREED (Justin Kurzel) – Tweet of Consciousness
ASSASSIN’S CREED (Justin Kurzel): Contains the type of stilted, perfunctory writing non-video gamers wrongly associate with all video games
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) January 14, 2017
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LIFE, ANIMATED (Roger Ross Williams) – Tweet of Consciousness
If this wins Best Doc and LA LA LAND wins Best Pic, this year’s Oscars will be uber self-masturbatory regarding the BELOVED POWER of movies
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) January 13, 2017
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Tweet of Consciousness: 20TH CENTURY WOMEN (Mike Mills)
The rare case where a ‘lifetime achievement’ Oscar will go to a worthy performance actually representative of their ‘lifetime’ of work
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) January 9, 2017
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Tweet of Consciousness: Weekend News Roundup
News regarding Escape to Margaritaville; Sweat; Hamilton in London’s quest to stop scalpers/touts; the Stuttering Association for the Young (and Bruce Springsteen, kinda); the Ambassador Theatre Group/Colonial Theatre; and the Nassau Coliseum:
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Tweet of Consciousness: JULIETA (Pedro Almodóvar)
His customarily ravishing aesthetic portends the chasms of emotion brimming in wait under the ravishing surfaces of the characters’ lives.
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) January 9, 2017
Tweet of Consciousness: TONI ERDMANN (Maren Ade)
TONI ERDMANN: Like binge-watching a typically paced (stagnantly), structured (too loosely), and shot (point and shoot) modern TV miniseries
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) January 9, 2017
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Tweet of Consciousness: 13TH (Ava DuVernay)
13TH (Ava DuVernay): 2016’s most essential viewing experience produced for any artistic medium. It should be nominated for Best Picture.
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) January 6, 2017
THE BABYLON LINE After Line After Line After Line After Line After Line After
What follows is a pithy textual representation of The Babylon Line, Richard Greenberg’s oh-so Greenberg-ian new play currently running at Lincoln Center’s off-Broadway Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater through January 22:[1]
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Tweet of Consciousness: THE FEVER (600 HIGHWAYMEN; The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival)
2. But with 1 of the worst last lines of the season: “This is the end…or is it a sort of beginning?” Bit too on the nose, no?
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) January 6, 2017
