Tag: This Is Martin Bonner

• Favorite Films of the 2010s

  See also: my favorite books, TV shows, and albums of the 2010s. My initial list for this endeavor had 77 movies. After I barely managed to winnow it down to 50, I just couldn’t figure out how I’d get to that arbitrary yet appealing round number of 10. But once I realized most of the…

  December 10, 2019

  Film

  Arrival, best of, film, Hell Or High Water, Lincoln, lists, Mad Max: Fury Road, Minding the Gap, Spider-Man, Spotlight, The Lego Movie, The Social Network, This Is Martin Bonner

• This Is Martin Bonner

  I’ve seen a face I won’t soon forget. It’s the face of an unsure redemption, of grace on the upswing. Of counting tenuous steps as tiny miracles. This face is a freshly washed used car whose surface is clean again, but whose frame within still carries the weather and rust. It’s a face leading a…

  July 31, 2014

  Film

  Chad Hartigan, review, This Is Martin Bonner

• 13 In ’13: A Pop Culture Omnilist

  Standard operating procedure for making year-end culture lists says to rank your ten favorite films/albums/books, but I’ve recently soured against this convention. Choosing a pre-determined number of “the best” among many great works, as all award shows do, is great entertainment but entirely arbitrary. So this time around, I decided to institute my own arbitrary…

  January 14, 2014

  Books, Film, Music

  12 Years A Slave, An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth, Before Midnight, Chris Hadfield, Francis Spufford, Gravity, Haim, Her, House of Cards, Like Someone in Love, Lucius, Neil Gaiman, review, Rod Dreher, Short Term 12, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, This Is Martin Bonner