“​The idea was to create the highest level of chess ever played, a synthesis of the best of man and machine.” — Garry Kasparov, 2010 Part 1: The Man Kasparov was confident. His mind drifted back twelve years, to 1985, to Hamburg. This was before USB cables, before ​Super Mario…

Hey, everyone! Thanks for taking a look at my round-up and post-mortem of 2018 in film. First off: I feel compelled to mention that there’s a movie from 2017 that I saw after I put out my list last year that certainly would’ve made my top 10 — honestly, my…

“The fog is where I wanted to be.” - Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey Into Night “Philip Seymour Hoffman, Actor of Depth, Dies at 46” - The New York Times, February 2, 2014 There he stands, right in front of you. Pale blue eyes, strawberry blonde hair, soft features. He…

Hey, everybody! Thanks for taking a look at my round-up of the movies of 2017. First things first: By far the best piece of narrative entertainment released in 2017 was the third and final season of The Leftovers. That show is the new bar for contemporary storytelling as far as…