Category: Arts & Entertainment
City of Infuriatingly Charismatic Stars
Reporting back from a movie-filled weekend. Some spoilers for the relentlessly charming La La Land, and a review of Rogue One inspired by Thumper the rabbit
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.
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.
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
Exit, surrounded by Muppets
Tremendous respect for David Bowie, and a theory on what seems truly alien
It’s a Shame About Rey
Another note about The Force Awakens, merchandising, and spoiler culture. Contains huge spoilers, obviously.
