“I can never go to sleep. But I can lay quietly and not make a peep.” Our Steven Spielberg season continues with the disquieting 2001 science fiction epic A.I. Artificial Intelligence. In the near future, in a post-ice cap melting world clinging to the vestiges of humanity’s consumer peak where procreation is carefully controlled, Professor... Continue Reading →
Episode 131: The Shining (1980)
Film chosen and introduced by Matt Maybe I’m crackers for finding The Shining convivial and cozy, but in parallel with Jaws, it’s morphed from a once petrifying picture into a movie that induces a somewhat trance-like state, where the horror is neatly neutered. It slowly became a seductively snug watch—washing over me like a secure,... Continue Reading →
