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Intrusive Thoughts

Aging Changes

August 19, 2020

It's strange to consider how people look younger for longer than they did even just a few decades ago.

Year of the Month

Mirrored Love: Orpheus

August 13, 2020

A meditation on beauty, death, and possibly immortality.

Year of the Month

Choose Your Fighter: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

July 13, 2020

When the gamble pays off, everyone pretends that success was inevitable. It wasn’t.

Year of the Month

“I Just Want to Sleep” — The Narrow, Dark World of The Machinist

June 23, 2020

Self-knowledge, guilt, and fear.

Disney Byways

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

May 15, 2020

A movie my brain always insists needs a "who" in the title that is an interesting time capsule of the history of computing.

Year of the Month

To Dust We Return: The Grapes of Wrath in a Pandemic

May 5, 2020

History rhymes.

Celebrating the Living

George Clooney

April 12, 2020

He may or may not be his generation's Cary Grant, but he's a talented guy who may also be a bit attractive.

Celebrating the Living

George Clooney

April 12, 2020

A talented member of a talented family who seems to have realized he shouldn't take himself too seriously.

Year of the Month

No One Left to Listen: Family and Loss in There Will Be Blood

February 6, 2020

“We offer you the bond of family that very few oilmen can understand.”

Year of the Month

What’s Up, Doc? The Cartoonish Mayhem of Shoot 'Em Up

February 4, 2020

The 2007 action film is a gleefully over-the-top, hyper-stylized thrill ride of fun that never lets up

Streaming Shuffle

The Standoff at Sparrow Creek

January 15, 2020

This is a phenomenally dumb film disguised as a sharp, politically aware thriller.

Year of the Month

The Thin Man (and Family Memories)

January 14, 2020

Pour me another drink, darling.