
I was too sick to get a review prepared for this week. I should be back to normal next week.
I was too sick to get a review prepared for this week. I should be back to normal next week.
No review this week due to heavy workload in other things. Normal schedule may resume next week.
There was too much happening this week for me to put together a post. Reviews should resume next week.
It keeps happening. Does anything change, in the long run?
While going through old posts for the suggested viewing, I found even more movies about police officers acting outside the law to get the bad guys than I expected. Dirty Harry is the archetypal fairy tale of why law enforcement needs to be lawless, but we’re so accustomed to the narrative that “hero” cops bending or breaking the laws that are meant to keep us safe from the misuse of their authority are rarely visible. I recall how badly I hoped that Bad Boys might at least end with the bad guy actually imprisoned instead of executed. Because the unspoken superpower that fictional police have but real police rarely do, is that they are magically always right by being the heroes of the story being told. That doesn’t even begin to discuss the problem that modern law enforcement has with the kind of people who are attracted to the authoritarian, “I Am The Law”, consequence-free state of modern policing.
Additional viewing:
And I don’t have my own words about Do The Right Thing, but that is highly recommended as well.
People have been dealing with a lot of change and redirection lately. Not everything expected to happen gets to happen. This week I expected to review a movie and then that didn’t happen. Yesterday’s Movies will be back next week.
The mood for this week includes
The house lights are raised in the theater this week due to the blowing-stuff-up holiday. Enjoy the explosions.
I find myself without the time to review a movie because of some movie-making business coming up suddenly, so here is a selection of reviews about movies about movie-making:
Put together a refrigerator turkey sandwich with some Yesterday’s Movies seasonal favorites.
Regular reviews resume next week.
I’m sick in a sleepy and achy way that clashes with critical thought, so I have to put this project aside this week and rest.
I just learned today that the comic relief boffin sidekick from Spider-Man: Homecoming, Jacob Batalon, was also the comic relief boffin sidekick in Rooster Teeth’s horror pastiche Blood Fest, less a lot of hair. I knew he looked familiar from something.