Category: Movies
Pick Poor Robin Clean (One More Thing I Love About Sinners)
There’s one scene in Sinners that seems to be played for a laugh, but it’s packed with meaning that ripples throughout the entire movie. Long post with lots of spoilers.
One Thing I Like About Drop
Drop places itself in the long history of high-concept suspense thrillers, then makes a reasonably convincing argument that it belongs there
One Thing I Love About Sinners
The experience of watching Ryan Coogler’s Sinners in IMAX is why cinema exists in the first place
The Love We (Choose To) Give
A nice way of thinking about failed relationships, courtesy of Companion and Bloom (spoilers for both)
It’s a good scream
Watching Blow Out by Brian De Palma and continuing my struggle to rethink how I watch movies
One Thing I Like About Lake Mungo
Lake Mungo is a fictional documentary about ghost sightings that’s most horrifying for what it implies
One Thing I Love About Paddington 2
The most remarkable thing about Paddington 2 might be its casting
One Thing I Love About Paddington
The first Paddington is a perfect example of the difference between a family comedy and a kids’ movie
The Future: Beef
I finally watched Phantom of the Paradise, and it prompted me to re-evaluate my snobbery and how I think of movies
One Thing I Kind of Like About Death of a Unicorn
Death of a Unicorn reminded me of the 1980s, in that it’s the kind of movie they hardly ever make anymore
Two Things I Love About Nosferatu
Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu strips away all the subtlety and subtext from vampire stories, and then adds a little back. Spoilers.
