film

Ain’t it cool?!: John Wick (2014)

The culture of the exotic, fascinating underworld thrills us in John Wick, not merely the ironic, seemingly at times graceful, well-choreographed gun-fu.

2021-07-26
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Informal Writings Confessions of a Bad-Movie Watcher Viewing Journal

Collateral (2004): Notes on Michael Mann and Modern Urban Space

Notes on the debt to Miami Vice, the treatment of urban space, and stylistic gunplay in Michael Mann’s 2004 film Collateral, which stars Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise.

Accident (1967): Elliptical yet fascinating

The 1967 film Accident narrates the sexual and professional tensions between an Oxford philosophy professor, his collegue, and his students, in events leading to the title event. What threads the film does not develop make the film compelling and its characters sympathetic.

2021-04-11
Informal Writings Viewing Journal

Read, Viewed: January 2021

January 2021 inaugurated both a new year and (Gott sei Dank!!!) a new president, during which I read and watched Vertigo, Stanley Cavell, Signs, Inside Llewyn Davis, and others.

2021-02-02
Informal Writings Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Read Viewed Consumed 2020-12

Perhaps I began the month of December inauspiciously, insofar as I read/viewed/consumed nothing on the first day of the month (see below). In fact, I did read two different Harry...

2021-01-02
Informal Writings Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Marauders (on Netflix now) is Sooooo Bad

The 2016 film Marauders is a gunplay and bank robbery story that is not so bad that it’s good.

2020-12-04
Informal Writings Confessions of a Bad-Movie Watcher Viewing Journal

Read Viewed Consumed 2020-11

During the month of November what I read and viewed—what I consumed—was less varied and somewhat sparse. In fact, lost some weight.

2020-11-30
Informal Writings Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Sudden Fear (1952): Neither sudden nor fearful

Sudden Fear tells the tale of a playwright that married the wrong man and was almost written out of the script.

2020-11-26
Informal Writings Viewing Journal

Is Writing About Bad Movies a Waste?

In which I performatively answer the question with reference to an episode of The Mandalorian, whether one should write about bad movies/televisions shows.