I would kill for that box set. I’m listening to the albums on Spotify.

William Basinski’s “The Disintegration Loops” has been occupying my world recently, and I’ve become fixated on it. I was first listening to it as ambient noise for when I’m writing, but quickly I noticed that I would close my eyes while listening and it felt like meditation, if only for a few seconds at a time; now,…

Sitcoms have always used characters as an echo chamber for jokes and situations, and most of the time that echo chamber results in sexual and romantic situations, it’s just the writers of Modern Family haven’t realized how truly bizarre it is to write that way once the characters are a family.

If they could include more information on the characters of Lady Bird, like for instance the highschool music teacher, then I’m on board. Honestly, I’m on board either way, but I’d love for the wonderful characters who obviously have so much depth but that we hardly go to know to get a spotlight.

Ehhh... I don’t really want a documentary like this from someone who watched three minutes of “Phantom Thread” and went on a “feminist” tirade about how sexist the film might have been after those three minutes. If someone were to do this, I would like it to be from someone who strives to understand something to the…

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In McDormand’s interrogation scene she brings up his instance of torturing a black man. This instance is further shown through the ways the two black characters in the film react to his presence.

There is a line that people cross which they can never come back from. Torturing someone is one of them.

I can’t see Niecy Nash in anything without feeling sad that she didn’t win an Emmy for her work in Getting On.

I don’t see what other people see in Rockwell’s performance. To me, it’s a by-the-numbers idiot shtick with two pretty good scenes.

In a year full of incredible empathetic films, I think Lady Bird takes the cake. I don’t think there a single scene that judges any of its characters, and for every character we meet we are given a specific moment or scene where the film strives for us to understand them and love them, even if they’ve done something…

I finished The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. My first Le Guin, and I have to say that I was blown away. I’m also reading The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara. There is a part of me that is critical of the fact that the book is written by a (going by looks here) white cisgender guy who is profiting…

My problem seems to be that I view McDormand’s drive to commit revenge on the maybe-rapist-murderer as pitiable and understandable, while I can’t empathize with Rockwell as a character at all since they made his character’s flaws so serious--if he were just an ignorant racist, instead of a torturing racist, I don’t…

What universe are you living in that you are seeing people “make fun of poor, white people with differing religious/political/societal viewpoints”? The film isn’t saying anything about that, and no one who is criticizing or praising the film is saying anything about that. You’re delusional.

A year full of empathetic, loving, creative films, and the one taking the major awards is the one making cruel jokes about black people, gay people, dwarfs and women.

Swap “risk-taking” with “completely and utterly misguided” and you got a point there!

The Handmaiden win, though! At least I can be happy about that!

Let me clarify my point a bit more on revenge still being self-defense:

The film seems to say that revenge and retribution is never the way to go about things, that it will always be destructive and, like you say, will never give any long-lasting solace. I disagree with this. I don’t think this is true will all instances of revenge and retribution; I believe that revenge can act as a…

I would definitely care if the man Dixon tortured was white. No, we don’t know what the victim of Dixon’s brutality was accused of, but see as how we never find out, I am sure it was not for something serious. I wouldn’t be okay with Dixon doing it since he is a police officer, but if a relative or victim of the…