jesus must have known

i don’t know why it seems so hard (for me) to write about movies (most of the time). i think it’s a combination of laziness, little to no rhetorical skills, an inability to organize my thoughts and the fact that i watch too many movies a week to keep track of. [...]

panic in year zero

half the people i know read cormac mccarthy’s the road (and i include myself in both the group of people i know and the group of people i know who read the road). and most of those people liked it. i liked it too but found it a let down compared to other mccarthy novels [...]

We’re Not Up to Feature Length Yet

I’ve been trying to decide if Michael Haneke’s Funny Games is totally immoral or not. As film-watchers we enter into a sort of contract with film-makers. “Here is my seven to ten dollars; you entertain me.” Whether that entertainment includes base, defecation-style humor or the mind-bending avant-garde, we don’t want to be “bored.” Ideally and [...]