Violent Delights
The end of Westworld’s first season has felt like a series of reveals for the sake of having reveals. This post is packed full of unmarked spoilers.
No Insight To Be Had Out There
Shallow takes on “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” are a perfect example of faux-progressive pop cultural simplification for the Twitter generation
Now They Set Their Clocks By Mine
Moana is a by-the-numbers Disney princess movie that keeps going off-script to transform into something inspired.
Some-maj
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is at its best when it’s at its darkest and weirdest.
Electric Sheep
HBO’s Westworld is as much of a post-millennial meta-textual exercise as the original was a 1970s fear-of-technology thriller. That doesn’t mean it has nothing to say, though. Spoilers for the first three episodes.
1984 Upside Down, or, Use Your Allusions
Stranger Things would still be pretty great if it were just a shameless pastiche of 80s movies, but it ends up transcending that.
First They Came For The Valleywags, and I Said Nothing
Navigating the minefield of principled opinions that results when wealthy strangers sue each other.
Have you heard the good news?
Valve has turned me into one of Those People.
Unbreakable
Everything a cowardly adult needs to know about 10 Cloverfield Lane
One of the Good Ones
Zootopia is surprisingly great, and a reminder of the value of family movies as parable
Would That It Were So Simple
A cursory and non-reductive look at Hail, Caesar! by Joel and Ethan Coen
Why I’m Excited About Firewatch
The future of independent game development is now! Or at least two years ago!