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Issue #446: Michael Mann’s Manhunter is Underrated
Boston is the city of champions once again.
There have only been nine seasons of Big3 basketball and only two seasons where the teams have represented cities. So Boston has won half of the Big3 championships they competed for. Pretty good....
Issue #445: Accepting Rejection (the book)
The topic of the nearly five-thousand word essay, beneath the work I close read, is the question of timeliness and timelessness. I have certainly not been timely in reading Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection (2024) even after reading “The Femini...
Issue #444: Junkyard Cinema
This weekend, I dressed like an NBA prospect on draft night.
What was the occasion? My great friends Jack and Emily got married. Huge congratulations to them. Sometimes good things happen.
Incision Scars and Unexpected Encount...
Issue #443: Seijun Suzuki and Incomprehensible Filmmaking
Eventually my two issue series on The Odyssey (2026) had to come to an end. Now, as is the newsletter’s beat (big budget films) I must turn my attention to the next big thing: Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026).
Kidding. I wrote about Seijun...
Issue #442: Adaptation Theory for the People Who Watch One Movie a Year
It’s pretty rare that I write about the same movie two weeks in a row. The cultural gravity The Odyssey (2026) exerts is impossible to escape. And it’s not so much the film itself that interests me as much as the critical response and how c...
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