movies
Things I liked in 2024
When your looney-tunes-inspired old-timey slapstick beaver hunting epic begins with a quote from St. Augustine’s Confessions, you know you’re in for a good time.
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personal
Vignettes #2
It feels like people want to justify enjoying something commercial by asserting that it is also art, which isn't necessary and isn't always true.
vignettes
Vignettes #1
The DGA’s leadership is full of cowards, and the AMPTP, those cartoon villains, will get what’s coming to them.
movies
Network, or the entertainment value of anger (originally posted on Substack on July 8th, 2021)
It's a good movie In one of my history classes in high school, I watched a clip from Network without any prior knowledge of the movie. All I knew was Peter Finch’s illuminated face projected onto a screen pulled down over the chalkboard, and the words that