Chil­dren of Men runs the dystopi­an gamut, from V for Vendet­ta and 28 Days Lat­er to Fahren­heit 451, THX 1138 and 1984, while cap­tur­ing the dead seri­ous urgency of cur­rent pol­i­tics, thanks to heavy dos­es of xeno­pho­bia, insur­rec­tion­ist vio­lence, sur­veil­lance, impris­on­ment and tor­ture. Draw­ing rev­er­ent­ly from the sto­ry of Christ’s flight through Egypt, Alfon­so Cuarón…

My lat­est review at Paper Thin Walls is up. If you did­n’t catch Kirb & Chris then, don’t miss ’em now. Set up an account and com­ment! What bet­ter way to take part in Web 2.0. Live up to the great expec­ta­tions Time Mag­a­zine set for “you.” Col­lect­ing my thoughts on Chil­dren of Men. In…

Mem­o­ries came out of hid­ing, but not emo­tions; not even the mem­o­ries of emotions. - Julian Barnes — Flaubert’s Par­rot Words like “haunt­ing” and “ellip­ti­cal” fail to express the beau­ty of Vic­tor Erice’s The Spir­it of the Bee­hive. Imbued with doubt, naivete and the over­ar­ch­ing para­noia of Fran­co’s Spain, Erice con­structs a nar­ra­tive of inno­cence…

Iñárritu should prob­a­bly find sub­tler ways to describe the exis­ten­tial links that bond soci­ety — Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft and all that — but Babel works in mys­te­ri­ous ways across bor­ders, lan­guage and time. In cer­tain respects, it’s a more dire expla­na­tion of David O. Rus­sel­l’s much maligned I Heart Huck­abees, which seemed prefer­able to me only because…

This may be the most need­less­ly over­pro­duced pro­gram on the inter­net, but that does­n’t stop me from being com­plete­ly enam­ored of it.