I like pens. :) Pens make for a pleasant, pleasing, low-key and low-stakes thing that is just easy to put attention into. I've be...

My first favorite movie was  Batman  (1989, Tim Burton). And the one thing as a kid I could never understand was what those photos VICKI VAL...

Annette  (2021, Leos Carax) is subdued, elliptical, and elegiac. Like  Holy Motors  (2012, Carax), its perspective is from that of the artis...

My whole life I can only think of a few production companies I’ve heard others say they like: Studio Ghibli, Pixar, Marvel, and A24. I’d alw...

The first time I saw  The Last Temptation of Christ  (1988, Martin Scorsese) I completely freaked over how crazy its ending was. I don’t eve...

Signs  (2002, M. Night Shyamalan) was enough for me. I’d had it with Shyamalan. At the time I concluded that it was merely a  Twilight Zone ...

Swopped out work laptops earlier this year, and for reasons involving ignorance ("back up your dotfiles to GitHub" means as much...

What sets  Black Widow  (2021, Cate Shortland) apart from all the other Marvel Studios movies? Well, being a blockbuster featuring one of th...

A short time before I heard they were making this I remember talking about how the 1961 Cruella de Vil was so whitetrash—chainsmoking, hagga...

Here’s a test: when you’re watching a movie if you were to ask yourself, “what is this about?” would you be able to answer? Almost every sin...