Cats: A movie so infested with lice, I’m writing about it twice.
Author: Steven Strauss
Rolling in the [BEEEEEP]
Merce Cunningham will be rolling in his grave over being compared to Cats.
(Re)Drop the Needle
It’s the first new-music Friday of the new year!
The ParaThing
It’s never too late to catch up with a cinema classic, personally thanks to…Bong Joon Ho?!
‘Just Mercy’
Watch the trailer for Just Mercy:
Where’s My Complicity
Providing sufficient biographical background for a documentary’s talking-heads is one way to challenge their talk by contextualizing the talker.
It’s Called an Opera for a Reason
Why do actors refuse to channel into their performances the spectacular preposterousness of the preponderant, preposterous spectacle surrounding them in Hollywood blockbusters?
Checks & Balances
The talking heads documentaries (overly) rely on are not only an artistic problem; they also pose an intellectual hole, because they provide — UNCHECKED — the educational legitimacy upon which the entire enterprise often resides.
‘Walking on Water’
Walking on Water is like a documentary mashup of Christopher Guest meets The Mad Ones, a portrait of an artist-at-work that doubles as a comedy of both manners and errors, pertaining to how the artistic sausage gets communally, hysterically, ridiculously, absurdly, profoundly, dysfunctionally, maddeningly, impossibly, inconceivably, and humanely (or not) made (or not).
A Parasitic Parable
‘Tis the (Oscars) season: time to revisit some of the year’s best pictures.
