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Rewired on Reads & Reels
Books and movies, untangled for sharper insights and unexpected connections. Perfect for a deep dive or a conversation that actually goes somewhere.
For a Spy Date: Secrets, Betrayal, and a Walkman
Movie : L'affaire/ Farewell "Farewell" is your classic Cold War spy thriller, but with a twist: it’s more about midlife crises, awkward...
Oct 15, 20242 min read
I Heart Huckabees: A Screwball Comedy for the Existentially Curious
Tough sell, this one. So tough that co-writer and director David O.Russell struggled to get it off the ground—his fevered pitch likely...
Aug 21, 20242 min read
Drunken Masquerade: Polanski’s Boozy Trainwreck at The Palace
Welcome to a palace where the absurd and the ridiculous join forces in a masquerade of vanity and lunacy, and you’ve got Roman Polanski's...
Aug 14, 20243 min read
From Minnesota Nice to North Dakota Nonsense: Fargo Season 5's Unholy Mess
Fargo's fifth season is a spectacle that somehow manages to be both wildly unremarkable and excruciatingly painful to endure. It's as if...
Jul 23, 20243 min read
Bad Luck Banging: A Provocative Satire of Pandemics, Porn, and Post-Soviet Purgatory
Romanian movie “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn” (Babardeala cu bucluc sau porno balamuc), 2021, features Emi Cilibiu (Katia Pascariu), a...
Jun 18, 20243 min read
Love, Lust, and Liquor: Riding the Emotional Rollercoaster of “Betty Blue”
The joys of youthful despair are deliciously contradictory. You gamble with life like you’ve got nothing to lose, diving headfirst into...
May 29, 20243 min read
Piano Duels and Psychedelics: The Birth of Victim Culture in Autumn Sonata
I started watching “Autumn Sonata” (Höstsonaten), 1978, with a sense of reluctance. The film opens slowly, and I found myself struggling...
May 29, 20243 min read
Tradition’s Bitter Joke
“Late Marriage” (Hatuna Meuheret), 2001, is a film that straddles the line between dark comedy and bleak drama, making “Shtisel” look...
May 28, 20242 min read
Dervish Whispers: Mysticism in the Desert
Nacer Khemir, a Tunisian filmmaker, spins a mystical masterpiece with “Bab’Aziz — The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul.” (2005) It’s an...
May 28, 20242 min read
Autumn Despair: ‘Fallen Leaves’ and the Bleak Winds of Finnish Cinema
Fallen Leaves (Kuolleet lehdet), 2023 The latest cinematic perplexity from Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki, takes the concept of a...
May 21, 20242 min read
Death at a funeral and other party favors
In Frank Oz’s “Death at a Funeral” (2007) the grim reaper doesn’t just stop by for tea; he knocks over the china, trips on the rug, and...
May 16, 20242 min read
February movies I survived
Napoleon, 2023 Ridley Scott decides he’s going to make a movie about Napoleon. So far so good. After all, previously he managed to turn...
May 16, 20247 min read
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