Two sections here. First one's titled "Finding Art," second one's titled "I Just Got Banned From Another Gymboree." I. Finding Art How do you navigate the cultural surfeit? Genuinely, I'm asking. In theory, I'm mostly fine with being
I saw Primetime, the new movie about NBC’s To Catch A Predator, a couple nights ago. It was a “good time,” a stunning look through ”the drama” of making a TV show that truly brought “water for elephants.” These are all the names of Robert Pattinson movies. He plays
I haven’t revisited Alfonso Cuarón’s great Y tu mamá también in at least ten years, but we don't choose when the art in our mental archive comes for us. We take it in and hold on tight for when we'll need it. At the
It's a metaphor for AI.
Editing some typos in the Doors essay I wrote yesterday, I realized I had a perfect story to relate the way Oliver Stone uses Native Americans in that movie. I don't think I'm going to get a better time to share it, so here it is.
Burning out my subscribers' good will with 4,303 words on a movie that's pretty fun, I guess.
Look, this one's more navel-gazey than anything. You can skip it, I won't mind.
Spoilers for a half-dozen Coen brothers films. A couple newsletters ago, when I was discussing movie titles, I mentioned Fargo, and I'll take any free-associative excuse to think more about Fargo. I had somehow not realized until now that in their first seven movies (their 80s
When I was a kid, my grandmother had a vacation home in Bear Valley, in Northern California. I would have thought Bear Valley was a town, but I'm now reading it is a "census-designated place." If Bear Valley is known at all, it's
A review and some thoughts on dinosaurs and the Saw series as sports movies
Chipwrecked At The End Of All Things
A few months ago, at the great Partners and Son here in Philly, I saw a solicitation flyer for a comic called Laser Quest, by an artist named Harry Nordlinger. I don’t have a copy of that flyer, but it was, if I remember correctly, a small black and