Toy Story: “The Boy Is Mine”
I’m still not entirely sure if editing videos will become a second avocation for me, much less replace this first one. But a few days ago, this idea came to […]
Tag Archives: Music
Double Feature: Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Suppose you met a vampire one night. You’d probably have some questions. If the first ones that came to mind pertained to the monster’s taste in music, I have news […]
Two Poems
Insert a Stock Sound of Flies Buzzing Into Any Love Scene Wastrel’s Emergency
Double Feature: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and La La Land
Among the current decade’s crop of movie neo-musicals, Damien Chazelle’s La La Land stands apart for tapping into traditions uniquely native to film. That is to say, it’s a song-and-dance extravaganza […]
Double Feature: “The Kids Are Losing Their Minds”
From the beginning, rock music was pitched toward the young. The generational schisms opened early and often, with teenagers eager to assert cultural power like never before. Rock may have […]
The End of the Beginning: My 10 Favorite BPFW Movies
Even before I really knew much about movies, I had a strange pride in the ones that came out in my birth year. There was a sense of ownership over […]
Baby Paul’s First Weekend: Letterboxd Reviews
Here’s a reminder that I’ve been writing capsule reviews for my latest movie retrospective over on Letterboxd. Below are five of them, selected for movies that are either distinctive or […]
A Millennial Looks Back at High Fidelity
Any seventeen-year period after the release of a film is going to encompass big cultural changes. That’s just how fast the modern world moves. Even so, the film adaptation of […]
Both Versions: Amadeus
Evidently there isn’t much of a story behind the return of Amadeus to theaters in 2002 — with, as advertised, twenty minutes of added footage. By then, the world was well into […]
Double Feature: Purple Rain and 8 Mile
The later of these two films follows its predecessor’s blueprint so closely that comparisons have been and always will be inevitable. Two powerful and controversial entertainers at the height of […]
Geppetto's Clocks 