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Now appearing on many ironic Christmas movie lists is Batman Returns, and that's what I watched last night. Honestly, though, the best ironic Christmas films don't feel exactly ironic. Batman Returns and Eyes Wide Shut seem more like atypically mature appreciations of the holiday. Brazil, okay, that one's ironic.

Batman Returns actually touches ( Read more... )

I think people are much duller than they used to be. That's the conclusion I reached after finishing the assigned reading for class this week, which featured Mary Rowlandson's firsthand account of the slaughter of her friends and family and subsequent enslavement. Then a bit from Uncle Tom's Cabin where Eliza eludes pursuers with a baby in her arms ( Read more... )