
Essays about movies, and how they make me feel. Sometimes serious, sometimes not.
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There was a time when the studio comedy felt like a pillar of Hollywood. A dependable lane with its own stars. Jim Carrey was opening films. Will Ferrell was carrying them. You knew what you were getting, and more importantly, you knew who...
It’s interesting how your Netflix algorithm can suggest your next favorite film, which, quite conveniently, just happens to be another film on Netflix.
Does anyone actually think their algorithm “knows” them in any meaningful way? You watc...
It has become almost routine to complain that Hollywood has replaced ideas with sequels, remakes, and nostalgia-driven recycling. The complaint is now so familiar it feels like part of the same system it describes: a predictable cycle of fa...
Arrival opens with On the Nature of Daylight, strings that carry a haunting, unbearable weight, and over them a montage of a life: a child, sickness, death, and then grief. It plays with the shape and certainty of an ending, something whole...
There are years where the Academy gets it wrong in interesting ways. Years where the wrong film wins, the right film was never in the conversation, and a decade later, you can write a clean corrective narrative with a beginning, middle, and...
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