thinking “Downfall” (2004) is an extreme close-up of detritus trapped in the gully of modernity’s ebb tide.

watching the end credits is how we come up for air from good cinema. we like it when movies reward us for sitting all the way through.

“No Jews were harmed in the making of this motion picture.” - A Serious Man (2009)

“The Jesuits taught me how to think. I haven’t felt safe since.” - Homicide (1994, season 3, episode 2) http://bit.ly/3znI6R

planning to watch all of Oliver Stone’s presidential films, starting with “JFK”.

a rill of sun melted snow, “Northern Exposure’s” affable pilot episode never hastens, yet introduces characters at every bend.

we’re starting to watch “Northern Exposure” (1990), from the beginning and in order.

by episode six, “Californication” (2007) just might be budding some soul.

four or five episodes into “Californication” (2007), clever one-liners are budding amidst the hedgerows which corral the plot.

Quentin Tarantino’s World War Two spaghetti western “Inglourious Basterds” (2009) is the best film we’ve yet seen at The Robey Theater.