This won't be a thing for every week, necessarily. But on a somewhat regular basis I'd like to write about films that I think share something interesting in common. So, next week, I'll be holding my first "Double Feature Friday". For the
I was gonna “brag” here in the opening paragraph. I was gonna talk about the Bible Belt - that region in the southern United States replete with evangelicals, where I come from, and where I escaped. And I was gonna explain that not only was I from the Bible Belt,
so much depends upon presidential elections fraught with consequence beside the white chickens I could lie to myself, rationalize away the gravity of the quadrennial event, pretend like nothing much will change, stress the importance of state and municipal boundaries, count the blessings of living in my Massachusetts bubble, or
Like anyone with poor mental health at the height of the pandemic, I caught wind of Craiyon and played around for a few weeks, generating nonsensical images at a click of a button based on prompts like “skittles commercial directed by Wong Kar Wai”, “Liza Minelli on the $100 bill”
It was the handwriting that made it stand out. Sometimes when I’m at my most stressed and least functional, I let my mail pile up on my bookshelf, obscuring Dostoevsky. I know what just about every piece of mail is before I open it, most of it worthless statements
Almost all of the important Oscar precursors have occurred. But one important industry announcement has yet to be made public - what I think! At long last, below are my superlatives for 2025 in film. Biggest Impact with the least amount of screentime Bridget Everett, Wake Up Dead Man Best
“... and of Comedy, we will speak hereafter. Let us now discuss Tragedy…” It wasn’t until sometime in the 1100s that the first book on literary theory was rediscovered - Aristotle’s Poetics. “Written” around 335 BCE, this was a lecture by Aristotle talking about the qualities, rules, definitions, structure