Redoing the Best Picture Winners
The Shape of Water took home best picture last weekend, a pick that I’m not sure anyone was satisfied with. The movie is good, but easily inspires hate, featuring all… Read more Redoing the Best Picture Winners →
Dad blogging, culture, and tacos: Baja California Fish Tacos
There are not many guides out there about trying to keep up with movies when you have a young child. I know this, because I’ve looked. I figure professional critics… Read more Dad blogging, culture, and tacos: Baja California Fish Tacos →
Best Films of 2017
There’s still a lot of good stuff I haven’t seen that it’s almost embarrassing to release this list. Yet, here are ten movies I really enjoyed in 2017 that I… Read more Best Films of 2017 →
Three Films for Easter
This isn’t going to be an altar to Passion of the Christ, instead the focus will be on what I believe to be the two main themes of Easter: sacrifice and new life (or resurrection). These films provide exploration of the theme of sacrifice, especially that which leads to new life for the self or another. Exploring movies that are not explicitly religious or even more broadly are not directly about Easter, yet contain themes that evoke that period can bring about deeper reflection on what it means to us.… Read more Three Films for Easter →
A Pretentious Takedown of Middlebrow Cinema
This is going to be pretentious. The end of the year usually produces a swarm of movies as studios throw out everything that could possibly win an award. The summer… Read more A Pretentious Takedown of Middlebrow Cinema →
You Don’t Watch Good Movies
“Thinking is boring, of course (all that silence), which is why so many industrially made movies work so hard to entertain you. If you’re entertained, or so the logic seems to be, you won’t have the time and head space to think about how crummy, inane and familiar the movie looks, and how badly written, shoddily directed and indifferently acted it is. And so the images keep zipping, the sounds keep clanging and the actors keep shouting as if to reassure you that, yes, the money you spent for your… Read more You Don’t Watch Good Movies →
Rango
Johnny Depp and Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski’s latest collaboration takes place far away from the storming seas that the Black Pearl swayed on and finds itself in… Read more Rango →
