OBAA is a funny, terrifying dialectical window into opposing militia-style groups and the ways they’re both performative and dead serious — neither reality negates the other. I write about OBAA and other favorites of 2025.
Movies/Streaming 2024 wasn’t an outstanding year for movies, but it was a pretty good year for pretty good and very…
Food, cyborgs, elusive meteor showers. Benjamin Britten, “Hymn to St Cecilia, Op. 27” (1942, set to a poem by W….
Plus, bonus Megalopolis and The Apprentice. Blitz (2024) Note: I realize these are very loaded days for a studio and…
Caligula, Furiosa, Warhol, etc. My moviegoing ebbs and flows. Sometimes I live at the cinema and other times I barely…
Inconvenience/Truth, 2024. I’m glad to see culture’s much-needed reckoning with climate catastrophe and smaller-scale battles between environmental safety and the…
Bonus: the Netflix Ripley. I can’t find it now, but there’s a meme with an old newspaper clipping of a…
Wim Wenders in the land of the rising sun. “Brief, dark shadow of a city tree, the light sound of…
Things beyond my ken. Man, I don’t know what to do with all the Oscars discourse. I don’t want to…
