To continue — and to further complicate (hopefully) — Monday’s conversation concerning the treatment of morality in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood:
Category: Remember All the Movies, Terry, We’d Go See
Once Upon a Betrayal
Welcome to BETRAYED!, a week’s worth of diatribes inspired by the current Broadway revival of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal.
Projection
Chained for Life is 2019’s smartest cinematic contribution-cum-excavation of the current discourse surrounding #Representation.
Thoroughbreeding
Does Wednesday’s piece regarding The Death of Death Long feel…incomplete?
Horseplay
How can a movie that hinges on a horse fucking a guy to death be so…boringly conventional?
Yuxi
What Jexi could’ve been:
Wingless Phoenix
From one of my favorite actors erring, to another:
Lucy’s Not the Only Thing in the Sky
Yesterday, whilst discussing delightmares, I posited (in regards to Steven Knight, but the sentiment applies to many of my faves) that artists adventurous enough to swing for the fences will inevitably whiff a few at-bats.
Delightmare Serenity
Continuing our conversation regarding unintentional comedy (fuck artistic intentionality!), it’s high-time to finally explain the definition of a delightmare, through The Delightmare of 2019: motherfucking Serenity.
Goldfingered
Has a movie ever adapted a Great Work of Literature by satirizing the conventions of Great Works of Literature, and their #OscarBaity translations?
