daily stream: the ethics of war on a nuclear-armed planet
2003’s The Fog of War is on Prime and Apple TV on both sides of the Atlantic.
Year: 2023
Oppenheimer movie review: a particle of concern, a wave of complicity
With human paradoxes at its nucleus, this is a riveting portrait, both intimate and epic, of the self-involved men who think they make the world go round… and too often, tragically, do.
loaded question: what location-specific cultural event would you love to travel to?
I’ll get to the Edinburgh Fringe someday. Maybe you’re burning to attend Burning Man in Nevada, hopped up for Oktoberfest in Germany, or down to boogie at Carnival in Rio?
daily stream: crime as just another form of capitalism
2020’s The Gentlemen is on Prime in the US, Netflix in the UK.
daily stream: when you hit the gym and the gym hits back
2015’s Results is streaming on Kanopy in the US, Prime in the UK.
daily stream: maybe Mars *is* the kind of place to raise your kids…
2020’s Proxima is on Kanopy in the US, BFI Player in the UK.
Paris Memories (Revoir Paris) movie review: healing after horror
A deeply humane, delicately constructed journey through trauma and recovery that cuts like a knife and soothes like a hug, somehow, miraculously, managing both bundles of feeling at the same time.
loaded question: what death scene from a movie or TV show haunts you?
My pick is from the early 1990s British crime drama series Cracker, in which Robbie Coltrane played a criminal psychologist. The character whose death haunts me is [spoiler]…
daily stream: Hamlet, but make it angry and green
2003’s Hulk is on Hulu in the US, and on Prime on both sides of the Atlantic.
daily stream: Llewyn is the cat…
2013’s Inside Llewyn Davis is on Prime on both sides of the Atlantic.
