One Thing I Like About One Battle After Another
One Battle After Another is full of outstanding performances and virtuosic, genuinely daring filmmaking. I just wish more of it had connected with me.
One Thing I Like About Dead of Winter
Almost certainly the only review of the Emma Thompson thriller that compares it to Paddington
Martyrs to Degradation
Making sense of the process of turning off the noise without losing the core of what you’re trying to protect
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Any Minute Now
Two tunes that take forever to get started and frankly are better for it
Vast and Trunkless Legs of Stone
The people pumping up the generative AI bubble are so lazy that they’ve skipped over a crucial part of the whole pitch
Cinematic Smackdown: The Tragedy of Macbeth vs True Grit
What happens when Joel Coen brings the full force of his filmmaking skills to an adaptation
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: F-f-f-Foolin’ the Rain
Two tangentially-related tunes from my totally hardcore adolescence
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Point/Counter-point: Why Were We Born?
Two tangentially related tunes asking the big questions
Ride through mansions of glory on happiness machines
Mario Kart World and the joy of false nostalgia
One Thing I Like About The Roses
The Roses is a much lighter and funnier adaptation of a story that doesn’t lose its edge by choosing to be sincere
Don’t bring me down, Bruce
Rewatching Jaws for its 50th anniversary
The only way to begin is by beginning
A fan letter to Dropout for showing how you don’t have to give up your core values to be successful