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Wes Hazard

Mar 11, 20211 min

A Master Class in Acting & The Trauma of Toxic Masculinity

The 1924 Richard Connell short story The Most Dangerous Game (about a man who winds up being hunted for sport in a remote location by a...

Wes Hazard

Feb 18, 20214 min

They Didn't Need To Be That Good

I watched a lot of TV as a child. We had cable with nearly all of the channels, beginning in the 5th grade I was allowed to go without a...

Wes Hazard

Feb 7, 20211 min

He has a point

The headline here makes it seem like we're in for another grandiose self-granted ego stroke from Quentin Tarantino but his nuanced...

Wes Hazard

Feb 3, 20214 min

Best Biopic I've seen in a Minute

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Dir. Paul Schrader, 1985) Every once in a while I'll be watching a movie and around the 20 minute mark...

Wes Hazard

Jan 28, 20211 min

A Fine line between funny & fever dream...

I've seen The Silence of the Lambs probably more than any other movie and it's an undoubted masterpiece with acting, lighting, and...

Wes Hazard

Jan 21, 20213 min

Watching this came in handy

It was all the rage on Twitter late last summer but I missed the initial conversation about the marine documentary My Octopus Teacher. I...