If you watch enough movies, you’ll find the rhymes. Music is often talked about as being cinematic. The images the lyrics conjure. The feeling a swell of harmony gives you. The way you can, even as the song is playing, play out an entire 4-minute … [Continue reading]
Good Things Come In Threes: Overwrestling with AVENGERS: ENDGAME, WINE COUNTRY, and LONG SHOT.
The last three movies I’ve seen are quite different from each other. One is an epic 3-hour capper to an even more epic 22-film saga with a near $400-million budget. One is a Netflix joint put together by some of our finest comedic actresses. The … [Continue reading]
Drifting Together in Chaotic Waters: CATASTROPHE and THE BEFORE TRILOGY
My freshman year of college brought me a lot of discoveries: how much weight I could gain from eating cafeteria food, how to nearly fail an English class, the wonder of Jim James’ voice. I went back and forth on how much I loved the Red Hot Chili … [Continue reading]
Marveling at More Intimate Stakes: CAPTAIN MARVEL
I’ve been far more impressed with than moved by Marvel’s 22-movie longform storytelling. Whatever emotional heft the films tighten in me tend to slack with the next board-resetting film. That dusty ending to Infinity War should have sent me crying a … [Continue reading]
Sharp Focus in Blurry Darkness: A STAR IS BORN vs. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
There’s a fun experiment that takes place after every year’s Oscars, where some of us, now able to easily rent these Oscar-nominated films through Redbox or seek them out on streaming platforms, think, “Well, let’s see what that was all about.” So … [Continue reading]
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