Category: Arts & Entertainment
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
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
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
One Thing I Like About Honey Don’t!
Honey Don’t! is the kind of independent, noir-tinged, straightforward detective story that just doesn’t get made anymore. (No significant spoilers)
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: You Have To Believe We Are Magic
I’ll tell you this week’s two tangentially-related tunes as long as you say the magic word
Literacy 2025: Book 24: Hidden Pictures
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
One Thing I Like About Drive-Away Dolls
Drive-Away Dolls has so many of the components of a good movie
One Thing I Like About K-Pop Demon Hunters
I never expected this movie to treat the question “am I in the target audience?” as completely irrelevant
