As anyone who has ever looked at this site previously knows, I am a huge fan of 60s and 70s sci-fi. One of the reasons I like it so much, even the ones without great […]
Godard Posters
I’ve already written about how some of my attraction to Godard is purely superficial. The look of them. The actors and actresses. The sheer cool factor. There’s more to them than that, obviously. But to […]
Who’s Jia Zhangke?
The short answer is that he is a Chinese film director who makes really good movies. But, there have been even bigger claims. NPR critic John Powers praised him as “(perhaps) the most important filmmaker […]
In Praise of Randomness
Random can be good. Random can lead you to discovering new things. Random can take you out of your safety zone and into new, sometimes uncomfortable worlds. Random is a way of forcing yourself to […]
The Future Was Yesterday
My taste in fiction tends to be dark. As in, Orwell’s 1984 is one of my all-time favorite books. Never has anyone captured the tools of surveillance, tribalism, misinformation, and psychological manipulation by those with […]
Tech Suckers and My Lost Battle Against Blu-ray
I recently purchased the Criterion Blu-ray boxed set of the Showa-era Godzilla movies. I hear it’s great. I wouldn’t know. I don’t have a Blu-ray player so I can’t watch it. It was not a […]
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