…or: cinematic adventuring from my couch.
Let me state this from the offset: there are probably many, many more movies that could and should be on this list. I just haven't gotten around to seeing them, partly out of my own lazy inertia (which I will completely own) but mostly because the movie industry has for most of its existence been …
Continue reading The Best Movies Directed By Women (That I Have Seen)
Niceness is not something that is generally held up as an upper-tier virtue in society. Instead we just got through another nasty election season consisting of battle-lines drawn, weapons hurled, and an election night that resulted in a "choose-your-own-story" victory narrative in which the only real consensus reached was that we are an increasingly divided …
Since the last time we checked in there has been one huge change in my life with the arrival of my second child. While this change has produced typically chaotic results in my household, the chaos is a small price to pay for the absolute joy of being a father of two. And because correlating …
Continue reading Best Films To Watch When You Have A Newborn
One of my biggest problems with most end-of-year best film awards is that we crown these films the "best" when we have at best had about six months since they first encountered it. In the case of the biggest prize of all, the Academy Awards, there is so much lobbying by film studios that it is …
