Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie. A delightfully lo-fi sci-fi goof centered around Back to the Future? You know I’d be into it. If there were any justice in the world Matt Johnson would get an Oscar nod for his wonderful, wacky performance.
The Odyssey. Truly what cinema is for. Zeus’s law requires that I commend movies like this for taking religion and myth seriously in all their weight and weirdness (complimentary). My first time in literal decades seeing a movie in IMAX as I usually don’t care about the format and would rather see a movie more cheaply, but I just had to make sure I saw the entirety of Agamemnon’s helmet and all the other goshdarn epic happenings.
True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color by Kory Stamper. The author of my favorite book of 2017 is back with another one about dictionaries and the ubernerds who make them.
How to Live, or a Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell. As a blogger I appreciated learning a lot about the OG blogger/essayist and his era of the French Wars of Religion. Life was already hard enough during that time and then they added brutal religious violence? People, man…
Pressure. While this is not great, it’s a first-ballot Dad Movie Hall of Famer, and I for one welcome the prospect of Band of Brothers alums—in this case Damian Lewis and Andrew Scott—getting back together to reenact World War II stories.
Obsession. I’ve been out of the dating scene since 2012. Knew things were bad out there but didn’t realize this bad…
Toy Story 5. This got me good a few times, probably because I went with my 7 and 3 year olds, the first time in a theater for the latter.
If I Go Will They Miss Me. An achingly intimate movie with a magical-realist take on the universal experience of dads trying to outrun what we see reflected back by the mini versions of ourselves.
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