This weeks top four (I don’t change these every week): movies I have noticed my cat watching 🐈
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy 2025
Okay Renée Zellweger Risky Business sliding to David Bowie’s monumental 1983 hit Modern Love…you win this round
I don’t know about stars but 5 full hearts for this.
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Ferrari 2023
Our deadly passion. Our terrible joy.
Life exists between two clicks of a stopwatch. Time a structural circularity, swooping down then sweeping up, never really moving and yet hurtling towards that second, final click all the same. Ferrari as the figurehead, the widow maker, the crown jewel, the scapegoat. Saturn devouring his own sons. A pen marked roadmap between lineage, brand, nation, patriarchy, capitalism, death. We’re here for the car.
The propinquity of death to drive, to lust, to performance,…
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Napoleon 2023
What do we ask of an artist when we ask for truth?
When Ridley Scott faces his Napoleon against a defaced Sphinx in a recreation of Oedipus, when he pulls back from the self-crowning, self-fashioning king to sit behind the easel of Jacques Louis David, is he taking a wanton chisel to historical fact, or is he picking up his own paintbrush?
Napoleon is concerned with the power of image makers in myth building. Its central figure’s gift for self…
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