Hello Readers,
I’ve decided to take my summer writing break a month early. Due to starting a new day job, family illness, and the general authoritarian malaise of 2025, I’ve found it difficult to concentrate on writing. It would be better to regroup for a month or two instead of publishing stale and under-researched film criticism. Depending on how I feel, I might be back with new thoughts in July, and if not, August.
During the break I am also hoping to concentrate on a(n outline for a) screenplay idea that’s worked its way into my head. This happens every few years, and to take the late David Lynch’s advice, “If you don’t write it down, it could happen… that the next day, you… then you want to blow your brains out. If you lose a great one.”
Later in 2025 I will be returning with analysis on a whole bevy of possibilities including Beatnik Pictures, Dark Academia, Cronenberg and his metaphorical children, disturbing technology, and more!
In the meantime, I’ll still publish a capsule each month because that’s easy--especially with movies like The Surfer starring Nic Cage in theaters.
Until then…