Though The Second Mother (2015, Anna Muylaert) is another deep and dark film, let me also emphasize that it also has some genuinely funny bits and the central character, Val,…
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Jordan Peele’s film Nope is one of those confounding films, so full of rich signifiers and symbolisms and yet also Peele not obviously connecting all of them. After four plus…
45 Years (2015, Andrew Haigh) is one of those films that stayed with me long after I viewed it. What the film does so well is offer us an existential…
The Fool (2015, Yuri Bykov) is a perfect example of how didactic art can be a powerful form of expression. I’ve been preaching for decades that didacticism in art need…
While I have some minor qualms with Bruce Peabody’s new book Wicked Leadership in Film, overall, I thought the book was interesting, enlightening and utilitarian in its comprehensive diagnosis of…
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Ex Machina: AI Representations Informing the Human Condition
For me, Ex Machina (2014, Alex Garland) is one of the best AI movies (and one of the best science fiction films) ever made. I say that because Garland does…
So, for two projects I’m doing, I re-watched The Witch (2016, Robert Eggers) and I must say that my response to it was much different than when I first watched…
I have to confess that I wrestled with what to say about the wonderful Blue is the Warmest Color (2013, Abdellatif Kechiche); that is, I knew I wanted to write…
Reality (Matteo Garrone) is one of those films that stayed with me after my first viewing of it, grew in potency as I thought about it more, and, then, after…
To my mind, Brokeback Mountain (2005, Ang Lee) is a landmark film, a film that utterly deconstructs the “cowboy” (hypermasculine, patriarchal, phallocentric) ideology, while also revealing how horribly destructive such…