film
CC40: Beautiful, Pointless
Ongoing Reflections on Physical Media, Part 4
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personal essay
A Meditation on 'The Holy Mountain'
And becoming.
politics
Taxation of the Mind
Tariffs on foreign films: stupid, but meaningfully evil.
film
The Shallow and the Portable
Ongoing Reflections on Physical Media, Part 3
film
The Grim Surveillance Aesthetics of 'Panic Room'
In David Fincher's fifth film, the camera is unsettlingly fluid and invasive.
horror
An Appreciation of Casper Kelly
Thoughts on films like 'Too Many Cooks' and the 'Adult Swim Yule Logs'.
film
The War of the Rohirrim: Rhymes with Éowyn
Finally a good reason to return to Middle Earth.
horror
All Men Are Melted Equal: Street Trash (1987/2024)
Wealth inequality will melt your face.
queer
Cinema of Multiplicity: Films by Vera Drew, Jane Schoenbrun, Paul B. Preciado
The People's Joker, I Saw the TV Glow, and Orlando make new waves in trans storytelling.
film
Clint Eastwood and 'Cry Macho'
Few public figures understand their own iconography better than Clint Eastwood. Setting aside that weird thing where he talked to a chair, Eastwood's film work over the last 30 years has masterfully played on his own celebrity in a way that few actors or directors have been able
politics
Conservative Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The other day I watched a double feature of Jay Roach's Bombshell, followed by his earlier film Game Change. In contrast to my recent article on political fiction, I'm more interested here in the role that real-life political figures play in these fictionalized dramas. What
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Ant-Man in Twin Peaks (Trailer)
In the game & comic shop I spend time in, they’ve been discussing a certain new movie trailer at great length. Yet for someone who loiters about in a comic shop all day like a Kevin Smith extra, I’m little interested in the realm of geekdom. I haven’