(Good?) Junk Food: Me & The MCU
The MCU movies drive me nuts. I like most of the MCU movies. I tend…
Taco Break: Higher Concepts
Sliding Doors is an unavoidable cultural phenomenon. You know what it’s about – Gwenyth Paltrow…
Hostless
Oscars have come and Oscars have gane, and here we are in the thinkpiece season.…
Lunch Links: OFFICE SPACE
As Ruck Cohlchez pointed out, this week marked the 20th anniversary of Mike Judge’s flop-turned-touchstone Office…
Moments in Time
I’ve been working on a sewing project for my older daughter. It’s a collection of…
Extra, Extra
I was rewatching The Cocoanuts, and something struck me—do you think one of the reasons…
Film on the Disc: THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE
More than anything else, this is a film about Robert Mitchum’s face: soulful, hangdog, and…
Lunch Links: TRIUMPHERS
What if we are spirits who keep coming back to life over and over and…
Cookie Cutter?
One of the most consistent complaints I’ve seen about the MCU is that they’re “cookie…
Film on the Internet: CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS
Currently available via HBO Go/HBO Now. Director Andrew Jarecki’s ambiguous and sometimes skin-crawling dive into…