‘A melancholy little boy much attached to his mother’
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Here 2024
Has less in common with cinema than it does with those meandering Hall of Presidents-esque ride-along attractions at Disneyland, the tannoy going ‘so sit back and take a trip with us, a trip…through history’ as the car pulls along at a snail’s pace through a sequence of overacted scenes each depicting another saccharine fantasy of liberalism.
Honestly quite amusing that released in the same year was one book set in a single New England location charting its changes from pre-colonial…
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Small Things Like These 2024
Same crowd of old women used to come in the bookshop and croon about how the wonderful Claire Keegan was the best current writer , and I had to stand there and smile silently and hold my tongue instead of telling them to read something better or frankly literally anything else.
But one of the few things I loathe more than that little crowd with their DIRE taste is Cillian Murphy’s face. O the things that Pisspoor selection of inflight entertainment will force a boy to doTranslated from by
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The Apprentice 2024
Wealthy boy-prince resentful of his father’s parochial origins and desirous of exorbitant wealth falls under the tutelage of an arch-Machiavel arch-homo sinister minister whispering in his ear, And somehow it’s NOT set in 1600s Florence? Astounding.
Endlessly fascinated by the 20th century’s answer to the court vizier, Roy Cohn — and relatedly by media that manages to tug on the heartstrings and make me feel twinges of sympathy for one of the most putrid and evil homosexuals to ever walk…
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The Brutalist 2024
A film that despises Modernism, or at the very least misunderstands it so totally such that it treats Modernity as pure surface, as mere set dressing. To Corbet, Modernism is little more than a name drop of Bauhaus and a few gestures to Louis Khan. Nothing of the conditions that brought these pieces into their age; it is insulting to use them as mere referential set dressing and name dropping, ascribing the design of the Cesca chair to Tóth, not…
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