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• I Wonder if Wes Anderson Ever Gets Tired of the Wes Anderson Aesthetic?

  We’re halfway through our first viewing of Moonrise Kingdom, which is the latest in the Wes Anderson oeuvre and is, like the others, extremely ‘Wes Anderson’ in its meticulously stylized sets that look like they came from what thrift stores would look like if they had thrift stores in heaven…which is to say that they’re [...]

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• Movies That Didn’t Suck Nearly As Badly As I Thought They Would: Promised Land (and a brief paen to my hometown)

  **I don’t always have my blog posts sponsored, but when I do it’s by Grammarly’s English grammar check online (typed in ‘Most Interesting Man Alive’ voice). Stay grammatically-correct, my friends. **
  I remember first seeing the trailer for Promised Land and thinking, “A charming-looking film starring Matt Damon and the super-charismatic guy from The Office, set [...]

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