December 2022

Celebrating:

5th Annual Garrett Awards

Reading:

Heat 2 (2022) by Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner: the movie-length storyboard as page-turner sequel to the movie Heat (Michael Mann, 1995) with on-the-nose dialogue, 2-D characterization, and convenient plot points. Buy Heat 2 here.

A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator’s Rise to Power (2015) by Paul Fischer: the crazy account of Kim’s effort to legitimize North Korea’s cinema industry by bending two South Koreans to his will. Buy A Kim Jong-Il Production here.

Watching:

Avatar: The Way of Water

I Feel Pretty

Dragged Across Concrete

Rumor Has It

The Back-up Plan

All Quiet on the Western Front

Friday Night Lights

Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children

Edward Scissorhands

The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Bullet Train

Sideways

A Dangerous Method

How Green Was My Valley

"These are the words I said to you," sayeth the Curator, Garrett Chaffin-Quiray