loaded question: what’s a perfect cosy movie for long dark winter evenings?
I love the hygge of this time of year: candles, warm drinks, snuggling under a blanket watching films. But which films to watch?
talk amongst yourselves
loaded question: what is your secret pop-culture shame?
Similar to a question I asked early this year, but I’m testing the Net algorithms to see how the word shame performs… which might as well be my pop-culture shame…
loaded question: do you remember how you filled your time before smartphones?
Was it a horrible exercise in stewing, sulking, or despairing nothingness?
loaded question: what are the best movies about resistance to oppression, repression, and colonialism?
Apropos of, oh, nothing at all that might be in the news at the moment (Free Palestine!)…
loaded question: what’s the scariest scene ever in a movie that isn’t considered horror?
My pick: the alien-examination scene in 1993’s UFO-abduction flick Fire in the Sky, in which D.B. Sweeney’s abductee is treated by ET doctors like the biological specimen he is to them.
loaded question: what’s a music album that you fear not enough people realize is perfect?
Expanding the entertainment conversation beyond movies (though obviously you can pick a film score or compilation soundtrack if you like)…
loaded question: what are the all-time great movie endings?
A deceptively simple question, but consider this: what makes a great ending?
loaded question: how do we reinvent cinema in the streaming age?
What might reinvented cinema look like? What kinds of stories might cinema tell that it hasn’t been in recent years, or ever? Where do we go from here?
loaded question: what young actor (of any gender) working today could be the next great action star?
I honestly cannot think of anyone who could carry on the tradition of the 80s stars. The babies of the current crop of whom we might consider up-and-coming action stars are not that young…
loaded question: who’s your favorite film director, and why?
This one is a no-brainer for me: Steven Spielberg. And that’s because his Raiders of the Lost Ark is the movie that made me fall in love with movies.
