Sunday Morning! “What we Salvage” (2015)
Reading a novel set in my current city three decades ago made me wonder how important setting is for fiction. Let’s talk about it.
Category: Sunday
Sunday Morning! Agnès Varda (1928-2019)
You meet a lot of artists wandering down city streets. Not everyday do you meet one like the great French filmmaker Agnes Varda.
Sunday Morning! “Us” (2019)
Jordan Peele’s recent “Us” reminds me that all great horror movies work by a sort of irrational nightmare logic. Here there be spoilers.
Sunday Morning! “Killing Commendatore” by Haruki Murakami
On the most recent tour of Haruki Murakami’s imagination and an exploration of artistic creation itself.
Sunday Morning! “Wanda” and “The Last Jedi”
It’s pretty hard to think of two movies as different from one another as Wanda and The Last Jedi. I watched them both anyway.
Sunday Morning! “Swing Time” by Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith’s most recent novel about female friendships, identity, dance, and how we grow out of the soil in which we were planted.
Sunday Morning! Tarkovsky’s “Stalker” (1979)
The director angrily replied that the movie needed to be slower at the beginning so bored audience members would realize they were in the wrong theater and leave early, thus weeding them out.
Sunday Morning! Art that Everyone Should Know
Preach it! Who are the great artists that you think the world NEEDS to know about right now?
Sunday Morning! “The Golden House”
In his recent novel, Salman Rushdie shows how reinventing oneself is damned hard to pull off, even in New York.
Sunday Morning: Equalizer 2
The joys of getting to know a little bit about the bad guy before the action scene takes place
Sunday Morning: On A Small Grief
A little childrens’ book about grieving.
The Rough Patch by Brian Lies
Ordinary Sunday Brunch
Ordinary Sunday Brunch is Ordinary Times cultural quick links for you enjoyment. This week; music, art, history, and food, with music to read, share, and discuss.
Sunday Morning: Daredevil’s Born Again
In prep for watching Daredevil Season 3, I go back and talk about Daredevil Born Again.
Sunday Morning: Giving Willy Wonka a Backstory was a Mistake
Sometimes it’s better when you don’t explain everything.
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