WHAT TO THINK ABOUT ART

I sure hope I’m not wasting my life!

There is joy in efficient resource usage, like how I tie together this monstrously long essay with the thinnest of critical through-lines.

There’s more to it than Eyes Wide Shut. Let’s tell ourselves that.

There goes Mando, leaving his ship parked in the middle of nowhere with nobody guarding it. I wonder if there is any plot or thematic significance to this.

Unlike Slate.com, I don’t play games with you. This post is exactly what the title says it is.

Monsters, Inc. might be a good movie, but it is definitely a poorly run company.

White men in the mid-20th century wrote a lot of books about their dicks! That got published and celebrated! Today, those guys write for tv.

Seinfeld came as close as it possibly could to reminding us that fuck it, we’re all going to die. In the meantime, what’s so bad about being stuck in a room with your three best friends, talking about shirts?

There has never been a good collage.

Not everything can be really, really good.

My first time watching the film that sexually awakened my spouse.

On time, nostalgia, and heroin movie tropes.

A dialogue about musical theater, Nazism, religion, and the canon.

We discuss a surprisingly funny and moving film.

I had never seen Citizen Kane. Guest blogger my spouse joins me to talk about film criticism and the canon.

I assume my readers are familiar with Great British Bake Off (GBBO), or why would you read this

A straight-up film review, with a long introduction about the concept of midlist fiction.