My God, Gena. How do I - how do any of us - do this without you now? I despair at existing in a world where you do not.

Cassavetes' magnum opus of the '70s. His most ambitious, audacious, poetic work only sured, at the very end, by Love Streams. I was so struck this time by the realization he hammered into my heart that we must all murder our child selves. We cannot simply send them away, bid adieu,…

The most impactful movies can only transform your outlook on the world - on your life - by first teleporting you within themselves. They make you a part of them, enclose you within them, and then suddenly spit you out, and you are not the same person afterwards.

I Saw the TV Glow begins in a cloud of mystery, in the glow of an ice cream truck and the haze of a campfire, that seems to indicate a woe of…

I have very frustrated, complicated feelings towards The Unrestricted War. It feels like it exists primarily as Canadian-made propaganda against the Chinese government which...sure, China isn't perfect, and maybe there was some mismanagement re: containing COVID-19 vs. the international fallout and reputation of "the party"...but our neigbours to the south completely shit the bed with the pandemic. No country on Earth did a poorer job in facing it than the United States, and if anyone deserves a giant cinematic middle…