Movies

And it does it pretty well. — To this day, Fargo, a movie over 25 years old, has massive rewatchability. Nearly every scene in Fargo is packed with layers — irony, implication, meaning, and at times humanity — and with each re-watch, they impart images that are increasingly absurd and darkly hilarious. On my latest watch, I…

Watching a pleasantly low-key documentary from 2022 — A Flash of Beauty: Bigfoot Revealed approaches its subject gently, avoiding the eerie music and insistent pressure on theories that often push “reality-based” shows or movies into the realm of conspiracy-focused drama. …

A Hollywood coffee shop, popular with screenwriters, taught me many lessons about the importance of community in a deeply competitive industry. — Let’s talk about some of the screenwriters I met early in my life in Hollywood and, in doing so, illustrate what kind of screenwriter I believe you shouldn’t want to be. This is a story about compassion, support, and community. I arrived in Los Angeles in September of 2005, having…

There you are, minding your own business, happily going along with your life, when all of a sudden you get attacked by an inanimate object. It doesn’t matter how much you fight, the object will win and you’ll be left, lying on the floor, bleeding to death. Life isn’t fair…

What a terrific movie Rushmore (1998) is. Co-written by Owen Wilson and Wes Anderson, who also directed the film, it’s a stellar follow-up to their first film Bottle Rocket (1996). A plot summary from IMDb: Max Fischer [Jason Schwartzman] is a precocious 15-year-old whose reason for living is his attendance…