December 2022
Month archive / 22 posts

¡Three Amigos!
William F. Buckley Jr. at Cannes
It was as if National Review were running Criterion Channel. An art house streaming service with a foundation of conservative values, and somebody thought it would work. Or maybe they knew it wouldn’t, and that was the point. As I butted heads with virtually all of my colleagues, most of whom were also progressive-minded cineastes, I began to suspect the company had hired us just to tie up our expertise in a boondoggle. I wouldn’t… See more →

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

The Hunger Games

Waiting for Guffman

It's a Wonderful Life

Glass Onion

Custodians of Human Succession

Scared Stiff
I’m not well versed in the Hong Kong school of “what if [title of recent successful American movie], but completely incoherent?,” but between Magic Crystal’s kung fu/E.T./Indiana Jones cocktail and Scared Stiff’s action/bromance/comedy take on Nightmare on Elm Street, I’m more than sufficiently compelled to investigate further.

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
I came for the stop-motion, but it wasn’t enough to keep me from bailing about halfway through. I assume there are more songs, and I’m not sorry to have missed them.

Casino
Why do all the Kansas City mafiosos in this have Brooklyn accents?

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Day 1,001
Notes from the bunker
A few hours after my last post in this series back in May, L tested positive, as have many other friends and family members in the months since. As someone who still has yet to contract Covid, I may now be in the minority among the people I know. Nevertheless, between staying on top of my vaccine regimen and absorbing the zeitgeist, my day-to-day caution is almost back to pre-pandemic levels. I usually carry a… See more →

Run Lola Run

To All a Goodnight

Don't Open Till Christmas
Bitchin Bajas

Saving Christmas
I genuinely appreciate when a movie I know is going to be wretched proves to be significantly worse than I thought possible, so I have no regrets, but this was truly painful all the same.

Premonition
