A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY isn't the Kogonada movie I was hoping for, but there are some pleasures to be found in the imagery, oddities of its plot, and committed performances. Colin Farrell remains incredible—Is he doing the best work of any actor in recent years?

A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY isn't the Kogonada movie I was hoping for, but there are some pleasures to be found in the imagery, oddities of its plot, and committed performances. Colin Farrell remains incredible—Is he doing the best work of any actor in recent years?

Got behind on writing / posting reviews while moving to Edinburgh, so going to try and catch up here. Some newer stuff, but mostly movies I've watched for my program. First up: Highest 2 Lowest, which has some strong scenes, but is a bit too smooth for either Lee or the lineage of High and Low

Got behind on writing / posting reviews while moving to Edinburgh, so going to try and catch up here. Some newer stuff, but mostly movies I've watched for my program. First up: Highest 2 Lowest, which has some strong scenes, but is a bit too smooth for either Lee or the lineage of High and Low

Jet lag has me in the living room reading Being and Nothingness at 3 in the morning. My internal clock is so lost it's decided to pull my whole dasein into confusion with it.

The time has come (to watch so many movies)

Big personal news: I'm getting ready to head to Scotland to pursue a Masters in Film Studies, starting in just a few weeks! I'm unbelievably excited for this time. It will give me a chance to write more, watch more, and read more—and hopefully learn to do all of those better

Big personal news: I'm getting ready to head to Scotland to pursue a Masters in Film Studies, starting in just a few weeks! I'm unbelievably excited for this time. It will give me a chance to write more, watch more, and read more—and hopefully learn to do all of those better

My last chance to do this in Seattle for a while

In packing mode, just filled a box with jars. For a brief moment, I was tempted to label it Weck-meister Harmonies

🎶🎶 Deadhead sticker on a cybertruck 🎶 🎶

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Cosign this & the whole thread; I would just add that saying, "I liked/hated it" is the least interesting thing criticism does; the value is in explaining why, placing it in cultural context, bringing history to bear, showing you what you didn't notice (or did notice yet couldn't put a finger on) &c

I'm finding the Sunday afternoon combo of go for a run / make a cocktail (after sufficient rehydrating) / read 20th century philosophy really hard to beat.

have sensed some confusion re: the origins of stomp clap that i'm all too happy to clear up maxread.substack.com/i/170106944/...

My latest piece: On the particular dissonance of finding your hometown show up in a Don DeLillo novel

Every word of this, from @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Finally watching METROPOLIS: Somehow, Dr Mabuse returned

It's Friday night baby

Know I'm a nerd when I get this giddy about JSTOR access

I found SUPERMAN very refreshing, even if I still have some qualms with Gunn's storytelling: "Superman’s best quality is how real it feels... Movies don’t have to be set within the real world (or real cities), but they should at least be in reference to the real world. They should care about it."

There's so much that falls into this category these days, but I believe this is the most abhorrent, violent, antichristic propaganda I've seen in the USA in my lifetime. Every alarm bell of empire, evil, and tone-deafness absolutely blaring

I’m gonna stop you right there. It’s obvious you’re in the middle of a Primer situation and I’ve got too much shit going on right now to deal with that. Go do your time travel drama and if you’ve got any stock tips I’ll take them obviously but otherwise please leave me out of it

This is so true, they let me literally end an essay on an em dash, for which I will forever be grateful (to them) and a confusing mix of amused and horrified (at myself).

This is so true, they let me literally end an essay on an em dash, for which I will forever be grateful (to them) and a confusing mix of amused and horrified (at myself).

Today, USAID shuts down. Experts say this could lead to 14 million deaths by 2030—including 4.5 million babies and children under 5. Let’s not forget, Trump recently let a warehouse full of food aid rot rather than feed the hungry. This isn’t America first. It’s America heartless.

One thing that sets The Bear apart from most shows is that it realizes the unparalleled electricity of a Tangerine Dream needle drop

One thing that sets The Bear apart from most shows is that it realizes the unparalleled electricity of a Tangerine Dream needle drop

"28 Years Later is particularly uninterested about the uncanny or the loss of humanity that comes with infection... This only makes Boyle’s film stronger and more intriguing, allowing it to explore new thematic and stylistic ideas. He’s not beholden to tropes—even tropes he popularized."

Took a shot at it

Took a shot at it

MATERIALISTS boasts a strong script that critiques the industrialization of modern dating: "This is people as use value in the modern market. Relationship as the means to an end of furthering ourselves toward our personal ideals."

We are truly in the age of horror films co-starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson where you see the monster's penis

Normal Greeks: “emergency exit procedure.” Me, a late antique Hellenist: “liturgy of the exodus of danger.”

Here in Washington state, 3,866,398 acres are on the line. This includes some of the most carbon-dense forest in the world, with immeasurable value for climate resilience, biodiversity conservation, and human health and well-being.

Some of the amazing public land in Washington to be sold to fund disastrous tax cuts.

Phenomenal article by @poniewozik.bsky.social and a sharp example of substantial media criticism. "But once conscripted into Mr. Trump’s war of imagery, a tank cannot be just a tank... Parades, after all, are symbolic texts; they have meanings and messages."

new column alternative headline: Tanks for Nothing www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/a...

Grappled with Wes' latest: "Korda is, per his daughter’s own admission, 'a swindling rogue.' He takes after his Andersonian forefather Royal Tenenbaum... His shot at a favorable eternal judgment seems nonexistent. Where’s the eye of a needle when you need one?"

What a beautiful day to resist

One of the greatest, most disturbing quotes I've seen in a long time www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

Tangerine Dream: the ideal soundtrack for reading about machine-induced apocalypse

Again to put this in perspective: For $6 billion the US was keeping 20 million people with HIV alive around the world. And building alliances in the process.

Grappled with Wes' latest: "Korda is, per his daughter’s own admission, 'a swindling rogue.' He takes after his Andersonian forefather Royal Tenenbaum... His shot at a favorable eternal judgment seems nonexistent. Where’s the eye of a needle when you need one?"

Every elected Republican should be asked if they think the president has the power to send in military in to “liberate” a state or city from its elected government.

The big deal about the Padilla manhandling is obvs that it happened at all. But the big deal practically/politically may be that it happened *on camera*, and it is the kind of video made for TV news to play on loop

Thinking about death and writing about movies? Why, surely I would never do such a thing theotherjournal.com/2025/06/the-...