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A Fire, a Promise and a Film (opens the original)
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Some days stand apart, orphaned by the ambitions and routines that define most of the year. This was one of those days in was late August, a time less like summer and more like the first feint of autumn, like a pulled punch to see if you’d flinch. My daughter Miriam and I were in between. She was one day back from eight weeks upstate at summer camp, and two weeks from starting middle school. I was going from production to post-production on a movie, putting away props, interviewing editors, and
No Homework - what it is and why (opens the original)
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This essay, summing up three years in about 1 page and 120 links, is free. I hope that you’ll check out the trailer for my upcoming film, The Demon Core of Fresh Kills. Think of it as a coming attraction before the feature essay. Filming is wrapped, but we’re still taking on investors. Drop me a line if you want to talk! We meet each other in <a href="https://nohomework.substack.com/p/the-basement-of
How Humanity Became a Dirty Word (opens the original)
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Films DiscussedThe Odyssey (2026)Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)Network (1976)Good Will Hunting (1997)Rounders (1998)Oppenheimer (2023)The poem The Odyssey matters. I don’t know entirely why. But it matters enough that there’s a temptation throughout the ages to say that the story means the things that we
The Basement in the Cabin of the Obvious (opens the original)
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Films discussed:The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 and 1978)The Langoliers (1995)Obsession (2026)Backrooms (2026)The Demon Core of Fresh Kills (2027)This essay comes bearing good news. Over this summer, two horror films -Obsession and Backrooms - both made with modest budgets, came from out of more or less nowhere and put a lot of butts in seats, made a
Bring It to a Boil (opens the original)
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(Originally published in the Metropolitan Review, under the title “Cannibalism, Pederasty, and the Next Upgrade”)It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, is a cop out.Rhetorically, it’s clear, easy to agree with, and safe to pronounce in even the most banal contexts. But if anyone besides me or Charles Dickens uses it, feel free to ignore the rest. They’re most often trying to run out the clock.To the best/worst of times view, one might respond: pick a fucking side already. Few will.
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