I put this off for a few years, mainly because of all the letterboxd hype! Although I kept circling back to it, because it really made a lasting impression on those who spoke highly of it, and I knew that when it was still 'in the conversation' more or less in 2020, that I had to at least give it a chance. I had tried a couple Barley shorts, which I was sort of put off by, but now it's…

Absurd as it is that this has occupied the top rated spot on this site for about two years now, no other work in recent memory has bridged the gaps between serial narrative drama and experimental shorts, the standard cinematic look and wild amateur energy, 'TV' and 'cinema' with such cool assurance. There are endless cliffhanging threads of mystery to hook the casual tv viewer who just wants 'an immersive story', there is expansive 'world building' for those types who…

Somewhere Gaspar sheds a tear and Godfrey asks if he got copied too.

Terry finally buckled down and made his 2001 sensa centro, all pro- and epilogue.

Just fantastic. Splendid. By now, I think we pretty much all know if we like Malick or not. Although he can irk me now and again (I'm looking at you, To the Wonder), I absolutely do. He won me back with Knight of Cups because I saw it on a big screen. Seriously,…