"they leave for the sake of leaving, and without knowing why, they always say, 'we must go.'"

I'll say it again: it may be an 18-minute movie shown in a theme park, but this is the defining cinematic experience of my life. 200 degrees of a mesmerizing, hypnotic dream world. every time I get to see it again feels like a gift.

I've seen a few people over the years infer that some of the film feels a little corny…

"My goal, tonight, is to feed our imaginations; to awaken the mind's ear, through art, to a wise and enriching life."

I felt like surely I should at least log this once before the end of the year—though of course, I've watched it several dozen times in the last few months alone.

Long story short: I made a movie! Filmed over summer 2022, I spent nearly 2 years working with 90 hours of footage in post-production to eventually assemble this…

"I HAVE GREAT WOULD-YOU-RATHERS!"

I didn't expect to see this again, but friends were going and I like laughing with friends.

maybe I'm being presumptuous or over-reading here, but I feel like the lens the makes the most sense to interpret this movie is not "male friendship" but "neurodivergence and social cues." the real horror of the movie is in a person searching for a way to learn the rules of engagement in friendship but finding that they are consistently…

pure joy to see this in a packed theater with an audience of many generations of parents and children. one observation: way back when, movies used to be raucously funny without being comedies. I found myself laughing through almost every minute of this at every brilliant little facial gesture and saucy retort, and then crying all the others. transcendent, unreal, etc. also *way* too real right now. feels like I'm seeing way too many Rolfs around these days and not…

I’m seeing a lot of enjoyably quippy Letterboxd reviews saying that this is a funny movie about priests gossiping, and that isn’t untrue—but it also neglects to mention that it’s a very earnest and profoundly soul-stirring picture about the tension of faith, the desperate search for certainty, and the true purpose of the church in the world. the ending touched me dearly and I think it’s brilliant. this is the kind of well-staged ”men in rooms” drama that feels like…