”Look, I’m not saying that every middle school kid should be allowed to see Blue Velvet, but watching it at that age blew open a lot of doors in my mind about what art was and what movies could do. Lynch taught us how to see films and television as more than mere plot delivery devices and embrace the many moods and mysteries they’re capable of conjuring.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 02/07/2025
“There are worse ways to spend two hours than listening to Led Zeppelin songs being blasted through an IMAX sound system, where the rhythm section’s bottom-heavy bombast rattles the walls. It’s also hard not to feel some affection for these kindly grandpas sitting around the library, wistfully reminiscing about when they used to wield the hammer of the gods.” – North Shore Movies, 02/07/2025
”The film depicts the dehumanizing process by which people are forced to watch helplessly as their homes and schools are bulldozed. It asks that we watch, too. I get why No Other Land might sound like a tough sell. But the thing about excellent films is that they deserve to be seen, even if the filmmakers have to bring them around from theater to theater themselves.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 02/06/2025
Joined my buddy Blake Howard on his weekly film review podcast for Patreon subscribers. We talked briefly about Steven Soderbergh’s latest, disagreeing on the merits of the ghost POV while applauding the fine performance by Chris Sullivan and Soderbergh’s superhuman stamina behind the camera. Also, Blake seems to really have a thing about realtors. – One Heat Minute, 02/06/2025
My second dispatch from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival includes capsule reviews of Hailey Gates’ Atropia, Charlie Shackleton’s Zodiac Killer Project and Sierra Falconer’s Sunfish (& Other Stories From Green Lake).
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