loaded question: is IMAX worth the premium upgrade?
Does IMAX make a film feel more like an event in a way that cannot be replicated even with the best home setup, or even in small multiplex screens? Or does IMAX come at too high a price?
Sympathy for the Devil movie review: schtick the landing
Rote cat-and-mouse thriller spins its wheels getting somewhere obvious, just so wild-eyed Nic Cage can cartoonishly Rage again. Look, the actor has found his schtick, and he’s sticking with it, okay?
Mavka: The Forest Song movie review: the dark of the woods comes too late
Traditional folk music and beautifully animated mythic motifs may be rightfully validating for homegrown Ukrainian audiences, but there’s little else beyond that novelty to capture others’ imagination.
daily stream: a portrait of the incomparable Sinéad O’Connor
The 2022 documentary Nothing Compares is on Showtime in the US, Prime in the UK.
behind the scenes: I am unmoored and paralyzed by polycrisis
tl;dr: Finally able to step back from my year of hell and take a deep breath, all I see is pandemic denial, the world on fire, and fascists getting bolder and bolder. I feel so hopeless, and so helpless.
daily stream: Gerard Butler goes a’haunting
2007’s P.S. I Love You is on iPlayer in the UK for a few more weeks; on Prime and Apple TV in the US.
daily stream: snappy cinematic junk food to distract from terrible reality
2001’s Ocean’s Eleven leaves UK Prime soon; on Prime and Apple TV in the US.
daily stream: the global-warming truth gets more inconvenient by the day
2006’s An Inconvenient Truth is on Kanopy in the US, Paramount+ in the UK.
loaded question: what are the best (and worse) ways characters have unexpectedly reappeared in a story?
I have chosen the absolute nonsense of “Somehow, Palpatine returned,” which is so ridiculous that poor Oscar Isaac seems unable to muster enough enthusiasm to even pretend it makes sense…
loaded question: what are some good movies about resilience and bouncing back from adversity?
I’m having a tougher time getting back into the swing of things after my recent surgery than I was expecting, so help me out here…
