Film: Babylon
Hollywood does like to celebrate itself. There are films that genuinely create movie magic, and then there’s Babylon (2022), which reveres movie magic so blatantly it dispels much of its …
TV: The Third Day
I’m not sure if it’s an omen that shows keep luring me to creepy islands lately, but here we are: in the wake of Midnight Mass, I just spent another …
Film: Inherent Vice
When Joaquin Phoenix and Katherine Waterston started mumbling their way through the first scene of Inherent Vice (2014), I had such a hard time hearing them I had to turn on …