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Apr 13, 2023
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This is a Carousel guest review by Matt Pegas. Yes, we already reviewed this movie. Our feeling is, we’re only going to review good movies until they stop making bad ones, even if it means reviewing the same good one over and over again.

The idea of making a "real movie" has long been a holy grail in the online right. More recently, with the influx of cash and talent represented by the outputs of Alex Moyer, Amanda Milius, Peter Vack and others—not to mention the recent funding of a Delicious Tacos Short film to be directed by Asher Penn—this goal has suddenly begun to appear decidedly attainable.

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Listen now (75 min) | Please welcome Asher Penn to The Carousel. Asher is founder of Sex Magazine and the man behind the Delicious Tacos short film that Curtis Yarvin can’t stop blogging about. Asher and I discuss the genesis of the project, Peter Vack, the quality of Tacos’ writing…
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2 years ago · 7 likes · 3 comments · Isaac Simpson

But what do we mean by real movie? A proper budget? A wide theatrical release? Something that changes the culture by becoming “part of the conversation”? The former two things hardly guarantee the latter, as filmmakers behind Bros, Amsterdam, and Babylon learned the hard way last year, while outsider titles like Terrifier 2 found their way to relevance on microscopic budgets and word of mouth…

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