Writer, residing in NYC for the present. Passionate about music, movies, and history.
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Michael Clayton 2007
I'm completely bastardizing the quote here, but the idea, in film criticism, that, "It's not what it's about, it's how it's about it" holds incredibly true for this one. There are plenty of legal thrillers out there, and corporate malfeasance galore (I still think Todd Haynes' Dark Waters is one of the most disturbing movies of the last 20 years, even more so because it is at least largely fact-based). But what makes Michael Clayton stand out, beyond the handsome…
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Phantom Thread 2017
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I had forgotten the scene, during Reynolds' first mushroom episode, when he sees his mother standing in the bedroom in her wedding gown, and then Alma comes through the door, so that, for a moment, the two women are side-by-side. Incredible stuff. (Also, the things I would do to get my hands on that orchid-colored dress he makes for Alma early on...)
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Dune 2021
Much like The Green Knight, I feel like the more one knows about the lore of this world going in, the more you'll get out of it-- though it does an admirable job of laying out both the thorny diplomacy and the more esoteric, spiritual conflicts at play in Frank Herbert's novels. And, once again, I feel a distinct advantage here-- in terms of the books, I did stop partway through Children of Dune (the third in the series), but…
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The Green Knight 2021
In college, a guy I'd befriended asked me over to his dorm room to "hang out". When I arrived, I saw that he was watching the 2004 Clive Owen/Keira Knightley King Arthur, and eagerly asked if he was a King Arthur fan. He assured me he was, and proceeded into a mini-lecture on how this movie was "based on the actual history". I let him go on a bit, then asked if he'd read T.H. White's The Once and Future…
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