Winter Light

#9 in my Ranking of Bergman's Best Films. This Silence trilogy isn't easy movie watching, but it's very rewarding. Tomas, a minister in the Church of Sweden, is finishing a service at a small country church with only a handful of congregants. He speaks the words of the communion rite seriously, but dryly. We can…

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Everything’s Fine Now, Bye….

There's a trope in storytelling that's largely a mainstay of fantasy narratives. In order to clear the world/town/school/whatever of a certain threat, our protagonists need to hit just one bad guy, and then everything's good. Yes, I'm thinking of last night's Game of Thrones episode. From the second that we saw a white walker die…

The Green Inferno

I liked this a lot more than I thought I would, which is to say that I didn't think it was terrible. The story of a bunch of well-meaning college activists who travel to the Peruvian Amazon to stop loggers from bulldozing a native tribal village and then get eaten by those villagers is that…

Through a Glass Darkly

#10 in my Ranking of Bergman's Best Films. What do you do with a movie that is intentionally banal for its first half hour or so? Do you turn it off because you have better things to do with your time than to watch a family bicker about who’s going to get the fish nets…

George Washington and the Shadow of the Ohio Valley

Working title. Second draft seems to be going well.