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DRUNK MONKEYS IS A Literary Magazine and Film Blog founded in 2011 featuring short stories, flash fiction, poetry, film articles, movie reviews, and more

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Apr 10
Apr 10 100 WORD FILM REVIEWSReady Player One

Drunk Monkeys Film Department

Ready Player One is too well-crafted to be as bad as anticipated, but too clueless about its own subject matter to be as good as its occasional flashes of brilliance. I can’t imagine how amazing it was to be in the room when some poor underling explained video games to Steven Spielberg, but yes, I can, because the movie explains them to an audience who already understands. A likeable cast suggests the movie might end up more than the sum of its many references, but ultimately, as with all pop culture, you’ll take away whatever you brought in with you.

Apr 6
Apr 6 100 WORD FILM REVIEWSFlower

Drunk Monkeys Film Department

Now that I’ve seen Flower, I have even more appreciation for last year’s Lady Bird. Both are coming-of-age stories about a young woman trying to figure out her direction in life. But Lady Bird has something that Flower does not: Greta Gerwig. This film needed a writer/director with a singular voice and real life experience. Flower was written by three men that may or may not have ever spent more than ten minutes with a seventeen year-old girl. It’s a shame, really, because Zoey Deutch does the best she can with the material she’s given as our leading lady. In the end, much like her character, Flower is confused mess.

Apr 2
Apr 2 FILMCaptain Canada's Movie RodeoApril 2018

Gabriel Ricard takes on Netflix's new crapfest movie model and Ava DuVernay's A Wrinkle in Time in his latest Captain Canada column!

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYLive from New York, It's Me Deleting Your Number & Googling Photos of Alex Moffat AgainRachel Tanner

I wonder if he's allergic to cats, too.
I wonder if he ever forgets to be kind.

Apr 2
Apr 2 TELEVISIONOne Day at a Time – ¡El Rrrrremix!M.G. Poe

M.G. Poe takes a critical, but loving, look at the Netflix series One Day at a Time, focusing on where the show succeeds and where it can still improve in its representation of Cuban culture.

Apr 2
Apr 2 The Drunk Monkeys Film Department50 Best Films of the 21st Century

Drunk Monkeys Film Department

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYJohnathan Groff kisses his female costar on the set of MindhunterAlex Vigue

His shining ass in the camera lens is art in action. His fucking is pretend only because he lets us know it is. Johnathan Groff eats all of us out at once when he slides down between her skirt and skin.

Apr 2
Apr 2 FICTIONThe BachelorettesCaryn Coyle

On the television, the women who are after the bachelor sit for interviews. Each talks of how she can't understand what the bachelor sees in the girl who got hypothermia. They tell the camera of her lack of social skills, how she doesn't get along with them. How they want to rip her throat out.

Apr 2
Apr 2 FICTIONBrotherMichael Chin

“Every time he says, brother, he’s talking to you,” Mom explained. “He makes it sound like he’s talking to the whole world, but he’s only thinking about you.”

He did say it all the time. I’d never noticed.

Apr 2
Apr 2 FICTIONBrian and INeil Clark

The door creaked open and snapped me out of my malaise. Brian walked in. My axe was still lodged firmly into his head.

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYPainting My Emotional Landscape with Bob RossShevaun Brannigan

I am not a painter. I am not a happy person.
I do not see a blade and think mountaintop,
I do not see turpentine and think fresh start.

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYAubade with the Dew Drop Inn Boulder Bootleg, or After the Majory Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting, I Turn Off the World and Try to Hide Inside My EarbudsAnthony Frame

a few constellations I don’t recognize / here / all I see are / road kill deer / pistols / rifles / here / in my head / last night’s storm still / blazes /

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYSearching Huffington PostCatherine M. Anderson

Searching Huffington Post for articles
on "Compassionate ways to ask
your spouse for a divorce"did not prove
fruitful.

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYRelationships need verbsShloka Shankar

I can’t do stupid today.
These aren’t my pants (or jam hands).
I left behind a glass slipper
in a bottomless pit—

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYOlder than BarbieKaren Paul Holmes

But in 1970, she started looking straight at you:
Those sneaky eyes had to go said mothers
who finally accepted her giant breasts (sans nipples).

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRY“Time is but a river flowing”Sam Rasnake

Hope and results are different…one doesn’t create the other
[Looking at himself in a mirror]
There’s a reliable disappointment

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYTetrominoAmanda Latrenta Crane

I see the pattern now
deep in the blue blocks
that keep me in puzzles.

Apr 2
Apr 2 ARTThree Found PoemsSara Adams

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYSimon and Garfunkel on a December AfternoonTerry Wolverton

I would have to make a career, stomping around
like a mastodon to find a portal, some rough crack
in the old world for us to spark through. I would have
to head for an impossible destination,

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYOde to MeatwadJoanna C. Valente

What is a human besides meat?

Does electricity really create what we call

life & what does that exactly make you?