The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind (2019) – A Review
This review contains spoilers. William Kamkwamba built a windmill from scrap and helped save his family from famine. Chiwetel Ejiofor begins with everything that sentence leaves out. Maxwell Simba plays William, a thirteen-year-old living with his family in Wimbe, Malawi. He repairs radios, searches the scrapyard for...
Relay Makes the Long Way Round Thrilling – A Review
This review contains no spoilers for Relay (2024). Relay made me care deeply about the movements of a parcel. I have watched gunfights with less investment. Riz Ahmed plays a fixer for employees who uncover corporate wrongdoing and immediately regret it. They have the documents, the frightened...
Adaptation. Sees the Sadness and Calls it Lovely – A Review
This review contains heavy spoilers. Charlie Kaufman cannot find the beginning of Adaptation., which is awkward, because we are already watching it. His voice races through sweat, thinning hair, imagined rejection and things he should have said differently while his body stands stranded on the set of...
Fellowship Film Club: Ep. 3 – Arrival (2016) / Interstellar (2014)
Two non-linear timelines. Two deeply human quests through the cosmos. Dee and Ryan continue the Fellowship Film Club with an in-depth exploration of Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival (2016) and Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014). In this episode, the hosts unpack how these sci-fi masterworks subvert standard genre tropes by...
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice Is the Right Kind of Too Much – A Review
Four armed criminals are trying to decide which of the boyfriends in Gilmore Girls was best. A time machine has dropped one Vince Vaughn into the life of another, a cannibal is on his way to eat James Marsden, and everyone has become deeply invested...