A breath of fresh, cold air, one that you had felt once long before, is akin to how I felt watching this movie. I felt like I had seen bits and pieces of this movie on screens of past years and Christmases before, as I pulled my head out of my GameBoy and DS to look at what my parents were laughing at or intently focused on. The Holdovers has this inexplicable way of feeling present and past at the…

when you look up the word "folly" on google, it gives you two definitions. the second is wholly antiquated, but the first reads "a lack of good sense, foolishness." my proposal is that there needs to be a picture of this movie as a visual as well.

this movie is a folly of wild animals in their beautifully animated and largely nonsensical country. it is, of course, a children's book after all — do things really have to make sense…

re-watched for the first time in a little while. the grand budapest hotel holds its weight as my favorite movie rather well, and it does help i simply watch fewer and fewer movies with each passing year. i feel that it is wes anderson at his best with cinematography and scene direction, and in comparison to his older works the storyline follows a clear trajectory and in a natural manner.

i enjoy how it is a book about a conversation…