You know the drill Here are the movies I saw this year (that I remember): Excellent Tár Happening Aftersun Licorice Pizza The Good Boss Marcel the Shell Very Good The Banshees of Innishering The Fabelmans Sundown Everything Everywhere All At Once Good I’m No Longer Here Armaggedon Time The Tender Bar The Wonder The…

Or the power of movies (Proceed with caution: possible spoilers below). Steven Spielberg is a natural storyteller and his genius is one of endless creativity and invention. He is a master filmmaker in every aspect of the craft and he has made masterpieces that are also enormously popular blockbusters: Jaws…

Eat the Rich These two dark satires have much in common. Both are blunt revenge fantasies that tap into the frustration we all feel about the ultra rich who sack the world as it burns, contributing to its chaos with unstoppable energy. …

A filmmaker in limbo Several well known directors have made autobiographical movies this year: The Fabelmans by Steven Spielberg, Armaggedon Time by James Grey, and Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, by Alejandro González Iñárritu. The first two are childhood memoirs. Bardo is an allegory of the creator…

Tarred and feathered This movie, beautifully written and directed by Todd Field, made me want to jump back to write film reviews after a long, pandemic induced hiatus. Lydia Tár (a flinty, ferocious Cate Blanchett) is the current head of the Berlin Philharmonic, which means she is one of the…

And it’s now out in the world. Last year, I got an email from Ismael Gómez García, an editor in Spain who had read a short story by me in a small literary magazine and asked me if I had other material to share, as he was launching a publishing…

Y hoy sale al mundo. Read it in English El año pasado recibí un email de Ismael Gómez García, un editor en España quien había leído un cuento corto mío en la revista literaria Los Bárbaros. Ismael me preguntó si tenía algo más que mostrarle ya que acababa de fundar…