Looking Closer
Good grief. Looks like Catherine Hardwicke isn’t coping well with having the Twilight franchise taken away from her. She’s gone out and made a copy. Check it out… (more…) Read more
Good grief. Looks like Catherine Hardwicke isn’t coping well with having the Twilight franchise taken away from her. She’s gone out and made a copy. Check it out… (more…) Read more
Has there been a better news story in November than this one? (more…) Read more
My thoughts on John Curran’s film Stone are up at Image’s blog, Good Letters. Read more
“Oh the Horrors!” What’s the best way to regain perspective after election-week madness? (more…) Read more
As I discovered the cover art for Brian Eno’s exciting new instrumental work Small Craft on a Milk Sea – which happens to sound like a sequel to his Passengers collaboration with U2 – I thought, Wow. That looks really familiar. Then I remembered this… (more…) Read more
As I walked from Seattle Pacific University to a nearby coffee shop in the pouring rain, I stopped and rummaged through my bag for my camera so I could capture this. Somebody should write a children’s book about this leaf, which found a way to prolong its fall, so it could dance and dance in celebration of this incredible rain. … (more…) Read more
If you don’t like Conviction, you’re going to seem sub-human, heartless, devoid of any decency. But that’s not your fault. It’s the movie’s. Or better… it’s the movies. How many times have we seen stories just like this? A woman (usually) or a man senses that a great injustice has taken place. So she goes after the truth with everything she’s got, determined to right the wrong. She hangs on like a pit bull and won’t let go until the bad... Read more
No Depression posts notes on the new Over the Rhine album: “With The Long Surrender, our vision was to make a record we couldn’t imagine in advance,” says Detweiler. “We wanted to be surprised. We wanted to remain open, let the record unfold in real time. Fortunately, Joe loves to be surprised as well.” (more…) Read more
Okay, this Halloween’s vampire movie, Let Me In, is very well made. Much better than anything I would expect from the director of Cloverfield. Cinematic, patient, thoughtful, well-acted. But that doesn’t excuse it. … (more…) Read more
Via Alan Jacobs, a quote from an article in Prospect Magazine: (more…) Read more
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