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the last picture show

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Days of The Week (Films Watched January 17 – January 23)

January 24, 2015

A lot of homework this week. I mean A LOT of homework this week!

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Ryan McNeil
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Freeze Frame: THE LAST PICTURE SHOW

November 20, 2014

Watch a film a few times, and you start to notice foreshadowing that you’d never have picked up on before.

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Ryan McNeil
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Back to Basics – THE LAST PICTURE SHOW

January 27, 2010

At the risk of sounding stuck up, I’ve always maintained that I could spend several months in a small town, but couldn’t ever live in one permanently.

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Ryan McNeil
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