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One Battle After Another, (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025)

Last night we finally got around to watching Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, which seems to be, along with Sinners, the two leading choices to win the Oscar for Best Picture (although I suspect that It Was Just an Accident or Sentimental Value are better pictures). Either way, as has been the case since 1986, I will not be watching the Oscars as I continue the boycott I started when David Lynch's Blue Velvet was not nominated (in an age when no one believes in anything or stands for something, I am the exception). Of the two, I would pick One Battle After Another, although I certainly would be happy with Sinners winning (as I said earlier, it is a wonderful film). Maybe it's the unabashed critique of Trump's America that pushes the arrow to One Battle After Another for me. There was an article on the BBC website recently which asked the question: if so many film critics view One Battle After Another as a classic, why did so few people bother to see it. They proposed several reasons, when the obvious reason is simply that Americans are morons. Highly recommended.

The Cabin That Dripped Ice

 In honor of the 1971 Hammer film, The House That Dripped Blood, we are proud to present: The Cabin That Dripped Ice. [No one will be admitted during the terrifying ice decapitation scene!] As I've mentioned previously, during the last couple winters Vermont has seemingly remembered that it's Vermont. And, again, as I mentioned previously, I will not miss the Vermont winter.

Janet proposing that we really should do something about the ice hanging from the cabin.

Janet finally snapping and heroically freeing us from the demonic ice that was trying to entomb the entire cabin.