Sunday Morning! “Silent Light”
On Carlos Reygadas’s strangely sincere, beautiful, and deeply spiritual movie about infidelity among the Mennonites.
Category: Movies
Movie Notes: First Reformed
A (fairly) recent movie asks if God can forgive us for what we’ve done to His creation.
Put Away Childish Things
Many of us have stuck with childish pursuits because the adults of the past couple generations failed to properly pass the baton.
Defenders Of The Gold Bikini 2: The Fempire Doesn’t Strike Back
In which Padme swoons, and dies. There is absolutely NO purpose to Padme’s death.
Universal Pictures Should Not Cancel “The Hunt”
Is the current political climate too fragile to withstand the release of the violent satire film “The Hunt”? That’s a question best left to American consumers, not the president or his friends in the media.
Jane Wick
We’ve had female Terminators and female superheroes. Why couldn’t a woman be the next John Wick?
Rub and Tug
Sometimes enough is enough and you should step aside and let others have a swing at the pinata.
Actually, the Film Was Better Than These Books
“The book was better” is not something I say very often, but it is no less true: books are a different medium and what works on the page my not work on the screen and vice versa.
In Which I Spend a Sleepless Night Contemplating the Cats Trailer
Forget politics, you folks are getting 1300-odd words about this here Cats trailer.
The New Need, Same as the Old Need
I watched the Top Gun: Maverick trailer. Hurry up and take my money, Tom Cruise
Sunday Morning! “Kaili Blues”
A few brief notes on a Dada memoir from a founder and Bi Gan’s stunning 2015 film on time, memory, and the illusory quality of past, present, and future.
Sunday Morning! “Pasolini” by Enzo Siciliano
I read a biography of the great Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini that gets into the weeds of political and literary debates so deep as to lose sight of his art.
Sunday Morning! Rewatching Antonioni
He was considered a lion of European art house cinema. I consider Antonioni to be one of the great directors of emotional horror movies.
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.
Tenshot: Into the Spiderverse
For me, the sign of a great movie is when I’m both enjoying the current scene and giddy with anticipation for the scene to come.
