April 2024

Reading:

Pandora’s Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV (2023) by Peter Biskind: a gossipy, name-drop heavy, incomplete, insider’s scoop on how premium cable begat streaming services that collectively killed movies and TV, as those legacy audio-visual media were once known. An indisputable thesis in need of an editor. Buy Pandora’s Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV here.

Watching:

Over the Hedge

The Andromeda Strain

Bend It Like Beckham

Arrival

Mulan

The Secret of Kells

The Legend of the Titanic

Raise the Titanic

My Life as a Zucchini

The Equalizer 3

Ghost in the Shell

Mom and Dad

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