Taco Break: Off-The-Shelf Storytelling
I’ve talked before about my fascination with stories that lift from garbage, and now I…
Nowhere Man: TENET (2020)
“To even know its true nature is to lose.” Tenet disappoints like no other Christopher…
Year Of The Month: The Dark Knight
“The die is cast.” – Julius Caesar “You either die a hero, or you live…
Maximum Cool: BULLITT (Year of the Month)
Look at me. What I’m thinking is, “You’re mine. I fuckin’ own you.” But what…
Taco Break: the Way We Were
For nothing is lost, nothing is ever lost. (Robert Penn Warren) Picking up on a…
Lonely City: COLLATERAL (2004)
Collateral stands as the best of Michael Mann’s ongoing digital period, which may conclude with…
Michael Mann’s Blue Period: BLACKHAT (2015)
Like Thomas Pynchon, Michael Mann has made a series of genre works in his later…
Soundtracking #1: HEAT (1995)
The Professionals: Michael Mann’s Men
The iconic repeated image of a Michael Mann film is a man with a gun,…
Meaning Is Historical: TRUE DETECTIVE season 1
LA Confidential could have been the title for True Detective, as L. A. Confidential, more…