Writing about screen storytelling every ten days or so, from your friend Emerson.
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FMI Radio: YoHimbo
A dumb hot drifter sumbles into the middle of an escalating turf war between campus sororities.
Notes:
Movies to watch for research:
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Yojimbo (HBO Max)
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A Fistful of Dollars (Kanopy, YouTube w/Ads)
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The Skulls (Prime, Peacock,...
FMI Radio: Legacy
An FBI recruit gets a tip that the USA’s most prolific serial killer works for the FBI.
Notes:
Movies to watch for research:
The Recruit (2003)
The Silence of the Lambs
Mindhunter
The Hunted
Manhunter
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Hot Damn It’s Every Movie I Watched in August 2026
Another weird month of movie-watching for me, not a lot I loved, but I’m out of my slump by now and anyway you still want to know what I saw and what I thought of it, right? Here goes:
Niagara
Marilyn Monroe is, you know, Marilyn Mon...
FMI Radio: Spiritual Gangster feat. Lauren Servideo
On her way home from yoga, a woman wearing a “Spiritual Gangster” t-shirt is nabbed by the multiverse police after she is mistaken for an actual dimension-hopping spiritual gangster.
Notes:
Movies to watch for research:
- Eat, Pray, L...
Coyote vs. Monsanto
On Tuesday mornings, NYC Tape Fair’s Ricky Marrero and I join forces at Regal Cinemas to see whatever’s playing for $10. After the film, we reassemble over food to discuss what we just saw, be it autistic savant piano tuners, lecherous grey...
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