the art of illiterates
Rob Swriting on film and other ephemeral medias by Rob
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Is an Archbishop a Cop??
David Morse (doing cop-like gestures tbh)
Last year, I wrote an expansive piece surveying the filmography of the perennially third-billed David Morse, a remarkable character actor whose work in film, television and theatre is recognized an...
Is Project Hail Mary apologetics for labor exploitation…???
Project Hail Mary (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and a lot of other people, 2026)
(spoilers for Project Hail Mary herein)
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One Battle After Another and the political pointlessness of movies
“This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.” — Clint Eastwood
As I write this, we’re less than 12 hours out from enormous Oscar success for One Battle After Another and its writer-director Paul...
the chicken jockey mindset
As I began writing this at the end of last week, I had a tab open with the AMC Theatres page asking me to wait 8 minutes to get to any page on the website. It’s because Taylor Swift had just announced a release event for her new album, The...
Dancing with Words and Pictures: A Brief Appreciation of Peter Rose
what follows is a loose, unstructured survey of the work of avant-gardist Peter Rose (not the baseball player)—because it is heavy on images, it is too large for email. So check out the full piece on the web!
I discovered Peter Rose at a p...
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