no one can save us

i'm blogging, and watching The Dark Knight--it must be 2008

The Last Jedi and the End of Police

"To serve and protect", but on a galactic scale

The Machineries of Empire (Yoon Ha Lee)

Yoon Ha Lee goes out of his way to point out a character's obsession with spiced pickles.

January 2018 Reviews & Rec’s

Just a roundup of what I'd recommend from what I watched and read in January: Call Me By Your Name A love note to falling in love. I was delighted to find myself similarly entranced by Call Me By Your Name (2017) despite all the high praise it's garnered before I was able to see it. It's hard…

‘The Leftovers’ Piece on Bright Wall/Dark Room

A very belated post simply to officially mark that a piece I wrote on The Leftovers was published on "Bright Wall/Dark Room" (BW/DR), an online film magazine, in their "Best of 2017" issue, released this January. I expanded and reflected on some themes I wrote about in an earlier post of the same title on this…

Inaugurating the Apocalypse (A Reflection on N.K. Jemisin’s “The Broken Earth”)

The radical claim of The Broken Earth is not that its world and our world are too apocalyptic, but not apocalyptic enough.

Fragments Towards “What About Bob? (The Thriller!)”

Haven't you always wondered what the 1991 comedy classic "What About Bob?" would be like re-imagined as a psychological/supernatural thriller/horror film? Me too! Happy Halloween.

What I’m Reading

My reading tends to fall into two categories: (1) science-fiction/fantasy/speculative fiction, and (2) philosophy/theology/critical theory/political non-fiction. Currently Reading: (1) Fiction: The Stone Sky, the last installment in N.K. Jemisin's epic and apocalyptic "The Broken Earth" trilogy. Jemisin won the Hugo Award for best novel with both the first and second installment of the speculative fiction series…

The Evil of Meaning: A Reflection on ‘The Leftovers’

The Leftovers is a show that refuses to assign meaning to suffering.

On (Not) Wanting What You Want: Desire in Eternal Sunshine

Eternal Sunshine is a film about the things that get stuck in our heads; the things that will always be with us no matter how much we may disavow them. It's a movie about what we desire most, but also a movie about that very desire.