Tag: booksmart

  • Abstraction in Movies

    There are a couple of beautiful moments in Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox when the characters – extremely tactile puppets made with fur and cloth – suddenly turn into smooth plastic versions of themselves, glowing from within. It’s not as if the film is a picture of realism, but these moments depart entirely even from…

  • Booksmart meets Judas and the Black Messiah

    The other day, I watched a movie called Booksmart. It was hilarious, and energetic, and vibrant – too wild of a ride for me at times – but a truly great film about friendship and self trying new things. I walked away from that movie, as I often do, with a sense of jealousy or…