Real life can’t help but blend into my blog, so this week’s difficulties are from the people who can’t seem to plan ahead and schedule anything…property sellers, Fedex, etc. But that’s why movies are crucial, they take us away to witness other people’s problems so we can forget about ours. Let’s talk about Anora. Sean… Continue reading Anora and Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
Tag: Sean Baker
Red Rocket made me scream out loud, literally
Hopefully you’re savvy enough to get my review title’s double entendre which really did happen. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve said something out loud in a theater. The last time was during The Lighthouse when Willem DaFoe gave such a powerful monologue that I whisper said, “Oh my God”… Continue reading Red Rocket made me scream out loud, literally
The Florida Project, wish he was my relative; Sean Baker
Sean Baker has done it again, floored me with a film of beauty and poignancy….I’d like to call him my brother from another mother, read on…. I dated a brilliant, handsome and funny man for five years of Saturday nights before I moved to Florida, and before you think it was some string of boozy… Continue reading The Florida Project, wish he was my relative; Sean Baker
A Rare Hamletesque Command: Get Thee to a ‘Tangerine’ry
Tangerine Ok, forgive the bad analogy, but since my commandments are rare outside of my workplace (evidence based essays), I had to make that announcement. Forget the nunnery baby, the world is wide wide open with Tangerine on the screen. With Tangerine, think “Clerks” run by the Santa Monica transgendered. Think “Dope” with an equally… Continue reading A Rare Hamletesque Command: Get Thee to a ‘Tangerine’ry