Ten Sentence Movie Reviews and Other Mussings
The weavers of the plains are tireless workers poor but honest, always trusting the generosity of an unlocked door to let in a husband working nights at the print and design shop, finishing that last small sign full of eclairs glazed with the most deliciously appealing serif font for the new French bakery off of…
P It starts with the line, an upwards curlicue, the noose flapping rightwards in the wind, at the top of the curl, an afterthought, because every line needs a curve and a loop to follow the road set to the next ones beginning, less it turn in on itself, circle about, or start and end…
a black cowl is over her deliberately shuttered in an unlit windowless room so when I open my eyes she is invisible, a lemon whiff peeling away, a piano c note on a whole beat struck three times, to tingle skin, ping the tuning ear, enough to know-now-ow-w the first great rain of her, the…
Us is them, you, me, U.S., United States and all the good black and white and in between moments. It being horror, Us. is also Halloween, The Birds, The Shining, Jaws, eventually Night of the Living Dead, Friday the 13th, Black Swan. You get the point- the references, the pastiche, the absurd visual metaphors involving…
I have something I must confess to you I pick my nose, eat all my buggers too. This causes distress and disgust I know still off the floor I’ve eaten food that glows. - Science says that it’s all just for the best for I immunize against just those pests, my antibodies delight in the…
In Elsinore the poppies grow Despite the constant selfies show That stake their place in yellow high, No birds photo bomb their big I Show not seen by same throngs below. We are the influencers you know. We shine, svelte pose, for good ad flow, Post for your…
There is something majestic about great moments in history caught gloriously in action. The Apollo 11 moon landing was one of those caught moments in time. Appropriately, a documentary about Apollo 11 wouldn’t need sonorous commentary or analysis, just the somber prosody of Walter Cronkite, the voices of Mission Control, and the astronauts themselves. The…
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The Sumatran orangutan, gardening her spot comfortable in the canopy and lush tree top, nursing her young month-old, fell fiery below, seventy-four holes in her when the shooting stopped. - Four air gun pellets pierced her left eye, two her right, leaving her darkly blind, a howling Homer, Milton in orange pain, bereaved, childless, now…
When sex becomes deadly, it is a horror movie. When it becomes PG-13 and involves cystic fibrosis, viruses and teenage romance it becomes treacly, it becomes Five Feet Apart, which strives to be the ultimate doom teen romance. This movie has talented leads. Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson give it a genuine feel. The…
