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Category: Movies

  • Is Billy Madison a parody of comedy films?

    This author seems to think so, and after reading it I’m inclined to agree. I just rewatched Billy Madison, and let me tell you, there is a lot that doesn’t add up when you rewatch it as an adult. A quick primer: Billy Madison spends his days in perpetual drunk adolescence, the spoiled son of…

  • Only I know the secrets: Breaking down Under the Silver Lake

    “At the story’s outset, he already believes…that ‘there are people out there…more powerful and wealthier than us, that are communicating things, and seeing things in the world that are meant for only them and not for us.'”