Folks, I liked it! I mostly liked that it forced you to pay attention, constantly referring to characters and scenes you haven’t seen yet. I can usually take or leave Matt Damon, but I loved him in this, just so breezy and WASPy while he does the villain speech. They should have him and Ben play the Dulles brothers.
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The Major and the Minor 1942
I would love to slowly lower this movie into Bluesky and watch the prudish Gen Zers boil over, like when they used to lower cow carcasses into the Amazon to induce piranha frenzies. Absolutely insane premise—a broke woman wants to get out of NY and poses as a teenager for a discount train ticket, and winds up getting kind of adopted by an adult man who falls in love with her. People would get so bad! But there are no…
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Stand Up Solutions 2024
I love his YouTube videos but I thought at first that he was shooting fish in a barrel. But holy shit, does this turn into one of the best one-person shows I've ever seen. I'm listening to Mason & Dixon on audiobook right now, and one great thing about it is that Pynchon is demonstrating how this kind of success-win banal American greed (or greedy banality) has been part of the country since before there was a country. Just such an amazing job of sending up the hollowness at the center of it all and the desperation of the tech grift. A work of art.
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Civil War 2024
We all know the discourse by now, and even the (correct, I think) response to the discourse, that this movie has no politics and is actually just Independence Day for people who read the New Yorker. What I’m actually interested in is comparing this movie to Children of Men, obviously a far superior movie, but also far less successful at the box office. I chalk this up to the fact that CoM was by a Mexican director about Britain, and…
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