Peter Johansson
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Writer, reader, sucker for a dog kiss. Criteriontuesdays.com
Happy Tuesday! In which I picked the wrong movie to see with my dad.
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Dog Day Afternoon
US, 1975. Directed by Sidney Lumet. 125 minutes, color. Thereās a terrific scene in Dog Day Afternoon where director Sidney Lumet shows you what a brilliant filmmaker he is. The film, based oā¦
https://criteriontuesdays.wordpress.com/2026/07/07/dog-day-afternoon/
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US Men's soccer is exactly what we all need right now. With Trump co-opting the 250th, the USMNT is the one thing we can all feel good about right now, the only pure celebration we have left. And "Country Roads" needs to be the new national anthem. From this day forth.
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Have you seen this dog? My sweet Jonesey made the Jumbotron during last night's "Bark at the Park" night at the Mariners game last night! To all at T-Mobile who saw her after her appearance and wanted to give her love, you made her (and my) night!
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12 days ago
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13 days ago
"I don't know if they were guilty or not"?!? Are we really doing this?!?
add a skeleton here at some point
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Happy Tuesday! Today, my ardent defense of the French action film. Enjoy!
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District B13
France, 2004. Directed by Pierre Morel. 86 minutes, color. I feel sometimes, as an American, the need to stick up for the French. The French are unfairly mocked in this country for being cowardly, ā¦
https://criteriontuesdays.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/district-b13/
13 days ago
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Happy Tuesday! Today, I present the graduate thesis on "Die Hard" I always thought should exist. Enjoy!
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Die Hard
US, 1988. Directed by John McTiernan. 132 minutes, color. Die Hard was a pretty big deal when it came out, though not for reasons contemporary viewers may be aware of. For openers, it may surprise ā¦
https://criteriontuesdays.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/die-hard/
20 days ago
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Scarves up!
23 days ago
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Doesn't my Jonesey look beautiful? And check out her cowgirl bandana! Yeehaw!
24 days ago
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Congratulations, Canada!
24 days ago
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Happy Tuesday! Today, my favorite crime fighter. Enjoy!
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The Dark Knight
US/UK, 2008. Directed by Christopher Nolan. 152 minutes, color. Batman is my favorite comic book hero. Note that I didnāt say āsuperhero,ā because Batman doesnāt have any suā¦
https://criteriontuesdays.wordpress.com/2026/06/16/the-dark-knight/
27 days ago
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28 days ago
If you talk about Michelle Obama today, please make it about this video
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Happy Tuesday! A gorgeous story of love, loss, and duty. With kick-ass fight scenes.
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
China/Taiwan/US, 2000. Directed by Ang Lee. 120 minutes, color. āItās Sense and Sensibility with kung fu.ā That was the summary by one of the producers of Crouching Tiger, Hidden ā¦
https://criteriontuesdays.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon/
about 1 month ago
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Happy Tuesday! What to do about Woody Allen? My first challenge in whether art can be separated from the artist.
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
US, 1989. Directed by Woody Allen. 104 minutes, color. I need to talk about Woody Allen. We have all had the experience of watching a hero fall. For most of us, itās usually the transgressionā¦
https://criteriontuesdays.wordpress.com/2026/06/02/crimes-and-misdemeanors/
about 1 month ago
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about 2 months ago
My latest op-ed: āItās a frightening reality we now witness on a daily basis. Steven Rosenbaumās book is just the latest example of the digital assault on truth.ā
https://ctnewsjunkie.com/2026/05/26/opinion-truth-is-on-the-endangered-list-and-thats-the-truth/
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Opinion | āTruthā Is On The Endangered List ā And Thatās The Truth | CT News Junkie
Columnist Barth Keck says the irony, as they say, is rich in relation to a new book, āThe Future of Truth,ā that promises āa truth treasure hunt,ā according to distributor Simon & Schuster. Come to fi...
https://ctnewsjunkie.com/2026/05/26/opinion-truth-is-on-the-endangered-list-and-thats-the-truth/
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Happy Tuesday! A prison camp film today, based on real events.
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The Counterfeiters
Austria/Germany, 2007. Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. 98 minutes, color. For most of my life, contemporary foreign-language films were inaccessible. Unless you lived in a big city with a good selecā¦
https://criteriontuesdays.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/the-counterfeiters/
about 2 months ago
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Happy Tuesday! We've all had the experience. A beloved childhood film doesn't pass muster in the presesnt. Such is the case with today's film.
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Cold Turkey
US, 1971. Directed by Norman Lear. 101 minutes, color. When my boy was maybe six years old, we were in a Samās Club, and I ambled on over to the DVD tables while I was shopping. There I foundā¦
https://criteriontuesdays.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/cold-turkey/
about 2 months ago
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Happy Tuesday! This week I had the temerity to write about "Citizen Kane." IKR?!
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Citizen Kane
US, 1941. Directed by Orson Welles. 119 minutes, black and white. I first saw Citizen Kane on television when I was a kid; Iām going to say I was maybe eleven or twelve years old. I was old eā¦
https://criteriontuesdays.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/citizen-kane/
2 months ago
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I'm getting so tired of being lectured to get out and flip the House in November. It amounts to victim blaming. We voters have no voice in gerrymandering in red states, overruling what voters want. The sooner we acknowledge our democracy is gone, the better. The old ways are dead.
2 months ago
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Happy Tuesday! One from Italy today, that celebrates our love of film.
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Cinema Paradiso
Italy/France, 1988. Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. 124 minutes, color. Just a (relatively) quick shout-out today to a film I love. As you can imagine, movies about movies are especially dear to myā¦
https://criteriontuesdays.wordpress.com/2026/05/05/cinema-paradiso/
2 months ago
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Happy Tuesday! A documentary from 1996 that still remains relevant as it speaks to the power od movies to shape us.
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The Celluloid Closet
US, 1996. Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. 107 minutes, color and black and white. Thereās something religious and social conservatives donāt get right about Hollywood. Theā¦
https://criteriontuesdays.wordpress.com/2026/04/28/the-celluloid-closet/
3 months ago
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I bet Pete Hegseth secretly believes "Taserface" is a pretty cool name.
3 months ago
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Happy Tuesday! Today, the entire reason movies even exist: The car chase!
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Bullitt
US, 1968. Directed by Peter Yates. 113 minutes, color. When the LumiĆØre brothers (Auguste and Louis) and Georges MĆ©liĆØs were birthing cinema in late nineteenth century France, they couldnāt hā¦
https://criteriontuesdays.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/bullitt/
3 months ago
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Connor Joe looks like a guy you wouldn't want to run into in a "Raid" movie. A guy it would take two good guys to defeat.
3 months ago
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The writer may have a cookie, but only after three paragraphs are completed.
3 months ago
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Nobody tells anybody to "take it on the arches" anymore.
3 months ago
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Happy Tuesday! Coming to terms today with D.W Griffith, the racist yet brilliant filmmaker at the birth of US cinema.
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Broken Blossoms
US, 1919. Directed by D.W. Griffith. 90 minutes, black and white, silent. Film history has a big, fat problem sitting on its doorstep, and its name is David Wark (D.W.) Griffith. In 1915, D.W. Grifā¦
https://criteriontuesdays.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/broken-blossoms/
3 months ago
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There's nothing like finding $36.59 deposited in your bank account from book sales to make you feel like a writer.
3 months ago
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Friday night at the ballpark.
3 months ago
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I have had it with wheelbarrows.
3 months ago
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Jonesey's first bike ride of the season! Arriving at the dog park in style!
3 months ago
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Happy Tuesday! Today, a film we should all revisit during the darkest times for American democracy.
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Bridge of Spies
US/India/Germany/UK, 2015. Directed by Steven Spielberg. 141 minutes, color. Steven Spielberg is to me, hands down, my favorite filmmaker. He has grown from a master of spectacle into a master of sā¦
https://criteriontuesdays.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/bridge-of-spies/
3 months ago
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Cal hit his first HR and no trident?!
3 months ago
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I just found out that Jonesey made last year's Bark at the Park promo! She's in there twice!
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Dogs take the bases in Seattle as Mariners celebrate canine fans
YouTube video by king5evening
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3 months ago
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Traditional Good Friday bacon cheeseburger. And our local burger shack (Van's) always gives Jonesey a complimentary puppy patty.
3 months ago
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Happy Tuesday! A timely look at a classic, given the recent release of "The Bride!"
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Bride of Frankenstein
US, 1935. Directed by James Whale. 75 minutes, black and white. James Whale didnāt even want to make a sequel to his 1931 Frankenstein; he felt he had wrung the material dry in the first filmā¦
https://criteriontuesdays.wordpress.com/2026/03/31/bride-of-frankenstein/
3 months ago
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I actually caught a Hot Dog From Heaven on opening day, and OF COURSE I kept the parachute.
3 months ago
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Peter Johansson
Bushybritchesš«
4 months ago
āWhen homophobic hate comes my way and says, āWhy did you have to make it a gay story?ā We say, āBecause you ask questions like that. Itās not a gay story itās a love story, you assholeā āNick Offerman, his response to people bitching about his character being gay in The Last of Us.
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Happy Tuesday! A grindhouse flick with a lead performance that transcends the genre.
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Brawl in Cell Block 99
US, 2017. Directed by S. Craig Zahler. 132 minutes, color. I want to write about a film thatās really interesting to me. Brawl in Cell Block 99 is exactly what it presents itself to be. Itā¦
https://criteriontuesdays.wordpress.com/2026/03/24/brawl-in-cell-block-99/
4 months ago
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The President of the United States just said what no decent person would ever say about anyone. Another line crossed without outcry from Republicans. Who, by the way, wanted to prosecute anyone who would say the same about Charlie Kirk. This man is obscene.
4 months ago
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Peter Johansson
Ben Hill
4 months ago
Sweet and Savory, the Next Frontier: Brisket Brownie (Augusta GreenJackets) - split brownie w/ chopped brisket, caramel drizzle, crisp bacon Piggy Waffle Sandwich (Albuquerque Isotopes) - Belgian waffle w/ sweet and spicy pork burnt ends, chocolate whipped cream, sweet potato waffle fries
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Happy Tuesday! A foreign-language anti-war film that actually made it to suburban US multiplexes.
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Das Boot
West Germany, 1981. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen. 149 minutes, color. Das Boot was one of the first foreign-language films I saw in a theater, and the first that I didnāt need to leave suburā¦
https://criteriontuesdays.wordpress.com/2026/03/17/das-boot/
4 months ago
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My sweetie and I at Matchless Brewery Friday night.
4 months ago
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Depending on your perspective, the initials for the Puget Sound Senior Baseball League - PSSBL - could stand for "Possible." Or, "Passed Ball."
4 months ago
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Happy Tuesday! This week I write about coming THIS CLOSE to making my acting debut!
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Blow Out
US, 1981. Directed by Brian De Palma. 108 minutes, color. In 1966, Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni released his film Blow-Up. That film was about a fashion photographer who inadvertently snā¦
https://criteriontuesdays.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/blow-out/
4 months ago
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Peter Johansson
kate wehwalt
4 months ago
"why did you become a writer" because no one gave a shit about my special interests growing up. now i make them everyone else's problem. next question
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Happy Tuesday! One that scared me silly when I first saw it: Here's why. Enjoy!
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The Blair Witch Project
US, 1999. Directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez. 81 minutes, color and black and white. āIn October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryā¦
https://criteriontuesdays.wordpress.com/2026/03/03/the-blair-witch-project/
4 months ago
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Happy Tuesday! Today we turn the Wayback Machine to the early '70s, and a counter-culture cult classic.
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Billy Jack
US, 1971. Directed by Tom Laughlin (as T.C. Frank). 114 minutes, color. Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin) stands face-to-face about six inches away from corrupt county political boss Stuart Posner (Bert Frā¦
https://criteriontuesdays.wordpress.com/2026/02/24/billy-jack/
5 months ago
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Happy Tuesday! This week a palate cleanser, a goofy comedy that always makes me giggle.
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Big Trouble
US, 2002. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. 85 minutes, color. So, I totally get why so few people have seen Big Trouble. I still remember the trailers for it, a medium-dark comedy that happened to endā¦
https://criteriontuesdays.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/big-trouble/
5 months ago
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My favorite shot of Robert Duvall, from "Open Range." Kevin Costner, who directed and costarred, was in this shot, but rode out of it and kept the camera on Duvall. He knew.
5 months ago
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Happy Tuesday! Today, a film that brings back memories of a high school teacher. Enjoy!
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Ben-Hur
US, 1959. Directed by William Wyler. 222 minutes, color. This oneās for you, Miss Meyer, wherever you are. Patricia Meyer taught German and Latin at Wyomissing Area High School in Wyomissing,ā¦
https://criteriontuesdays.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/ben-hur/
5 months ago
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