The inexorable tide of humanity’s whims and the love-bolstered vessels they depend on to withstand the waves. There is peace first because there has been war, and then there is peace in love and in death. Nature unites people and just as soon reclaims them, beckoning them back into the cyclical process that justifies all of the trouble they all put each other through - lets them rest easier. This is the kind of state media I can get behind.
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The Irishman 2019
It’s what it is. The veil of death briskly draped over the great ambition of life, accompanying that damned underworld preterition that dulls the point, grinds it down and ensnares the vision. It was never cool, it was never fair. The apathetic spectre of doom that swept across the streets of America, gangs upon gangs interfering with gangs to get ahead over gangs - trip one infinitesimal strand of their complex web of “business” and you belong to them. Threaten…
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Horror in the High Desert 2: Minerva 2023
the desert is a dark, lonely place where things you are unaware of will be acutely aware of you. my commitment to this was tested - strongly - by the scene with the volunteer searcher feeling his way through the dark. still very scary when viewed through four fingers!
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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood 2019
Sharon Tate’s presence as an embodiment of passion for life itself, in reality gone too soon but in film made immortal with delicacy and yearning for a lost innocence. She is the Atlas of this story and provides that magnetic nostalgia which this film so eloquently weaves into a more standard yet excellent tale of ego-driven stardom. The cultural foil to Hollywood dreams found in the Manson family lurks as our constant reminder of the truth - no matter how…
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