HeyJaredThelma and Alice
Movie recommendations, book reviews, and miscellaneous musings from a writer based in Maine.
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Half and Half (opens the original)
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Happy Friday. I’m here with some movie recommendations, all of them written or directed by women. Enjoy! Millennial Almost Famous<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="675" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9HdB!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_
A Short Story About Chatbots That I Wrote in 2019 (opens the original)
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Early Fall Reading Diary (opens the original)
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TV Talk (opens the original)
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Lately, I can’t find anything to watch on TV—or at least, I can’t find anything I want to stick with, long-term. I have to really, really like a show in order to watch an entire season of it. I need to feel something more than just curiosity or admiration or mild amusement. With movies, I’m willing to go out on a limb, because a movie is over after two hours. A season of television is a much bigger commitment. Okay, so what do I look for in a TV show? It has to be well-written, funny, real, and
The Movies You Watch on Vacation (opens the original)
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I spent the first two weeks of August on vacation with my family, staying in a cottage on a little cove where we could swim at high tide and get really muddy at low tide. In the evenings we watched a movie together almost every night. Our kids are 8 and 13 14 (he just had a birthday!) which means our younger one ends up watching more PG-13 movies than her brother did at her age. Like the food you eat on vacation, the movies you watch are selected to delight rather than nurture. There’s a nostalg
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