Uninterpretative

Twenty three thousand words over twenty three total posts. Largely unread, but goals were met. Here's the rundown. Fox Drum Bebop by ...

I had dreams of writing a big defense of The Wind Rises , Hayao Miyazaki's maybe-it's-real-this-time retirement film about the desig...

I kept thinking I might end up having shit to say about Snowpiercer . It turns out I hella don't, except that it's great, so I'l...

I saw The Babadook about a week ago, which is why I didn't include it in the projected reviews, and why I won't be able to claim th...

I wrote about Noah and authorship and money and pedagogy back in May, and I don't have much of anything to add to that post. You'r...

Back in June, I had a conversation with my friend Aishwarya about Godzilla , which I have reproduced below, slightly altered to make me loo...

The strangest thing about Maleficent was that it ended up having the exact same issues with Benevolent Queeendom that made me sad about Wr...

I legitimately don't remember anything about Non-Stop . I kind of thought I might end up trying to write a review of Red Eye and then j...

I saw Why Don't You Play in Hell? because it was playing at the Japanese Film Festival of San Francisco , and because it was directed b...

Most of what I remember about Under the Skin is that it didn't quite do it for me. That and the profusion of Scarlett Johansson sci fi ...

Here's a weird thing; including this one, I've reviewed a goofy, apparently-gritty reimagining of a classic story. In 2012 it was Ab...

I mostly wanted to see Short Peace because I want to play the videogame associated with it. It was written by Suda51. I still haven't p...

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is one of those Murakami books that, despite being in the style of his that I prefer l...

I don't really have shit to say about Hercules , the movie I only saw for The Rock. And this time I can't even blame it on the lag i...

The Tale of Princess Kaguya was my favorite movie this year. So now that that's out of the way. You probably heard about Princess Kag...

I saw Joe in spite of the fact that it was made by the dude who directed Pineapple Express . I say this not because I have seen that movie,...

The mean way to say it is that Birdman is Synecdoche, New York for adults. Both struck me, while watching, as little more than a proof of ...