Film essays, interviews, reviews & goings on around town

The tragedy of waiting rooms

Movies to watch together, picked properly. Six film-night picks for partners, parents, friends and first dates, and a faster way to agree as a group.

Nearly every phone, every laptop, every GPU rendering every frame of every film you've streamed this year, the AI rollercoaster we’re all screaming on, carries a critical debt to this one stretch of Mitchel County hillside.

It began, as many worthwhile things begin, with a failure. Valentine's Day, Los Angeles, the two of us on the couch, Jacinta and I, scrolling through the same vast and indifferent catalogue we had scrolled through many times before.