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More thoughts about what The Favourite says and doesn’t say, and how people are unprepared for a movie with three Strong Female Characters (More spoilers)
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The Favourite is outstanding, taking everything that could make a movie arch or distancing and instead using it to draw us in. (Some spoilers for the end).
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A train of thought through lands of experimental multilingual chill
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My ongoing quest to let extra-terrestrial intelligence know that I have basic tastes
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Bugonia is a surreal black comedy that seems arch and dark but can’t completely disguise its underlying humanity. (No significant spoilers)
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Saying goodbye to Spooktober until next year, and admitting what I really got out of it.
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A last-minute addition to Spooktober 2025 that shouldn’t work yet somehow does (probably because of Mike Flanagan)
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Finishing up Spooktober by finally watching Robert Eggers’s debut movie about a teenager who just can’t seem to get a break
One Thing I Like
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Bugonia is a surreal black comedy that seems arch and dark but can’t completely disguise its underlying humanity. (No significant spoilers)
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One Battle After Another is full of outstanding performances and virtuosic, genuinely daring filmmaking. I just wish more of it had connected with me.
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Almost certainly the only review of the Emma Thompson thriller that compares it to Paddington
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer
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A train of thought through lands of experimental multilingual chill
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Two tangentially-related tunes to show that break-up songs are better with drums
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Two spooky tunes from The Pogues about ghosts
Books
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My thoughts on the 1961 film The Innocents and how hard it is to find a good old-fashioned haunting
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Jason Rekulak’s thriller about a young woman hired as nanny to a bright child whose drawings reveal a dark presence hiding in the house
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Josh Winning’s slasher novel about a camp for a celebrity who’s in danger of being canceled… PERMANENTLY