They’re both lost. The world seems cruel in a dull way, and ambivalent to their desires. Desires that have yet to materialize, and that they do not have words for. They’re looking for something in the way that we’re all looking for something. The funny thing about romance is that it doesn’t really fix that problem, but it does make it seem like less of a burden from time to time.

Maria (Adrienne Shelly) has a fight with her father…

First, some housekeeping: This movie is called Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla, BUT the SpaceGodzilla in question is covered in large crystals spread all over his body, including some Mad Max-style Crystal shoulder pads, which is fucking awesome. He’s like a flying jewellery post-apocalypse fantasy monster and I adore him. I sincerely believe that Toho fumbled the bag by not referring to Godzilla’s nemesis in this film as “Crystal Godzilla”. As the lone protester in the world’s stupidest protest, I will not…

Jonathan Glazer’s visual style comes into focus on the “Karma Police” music video that he directed for Radiohead. In that video, a camera was placed behind the driver’s seat as a car lurched forward on an abandoned road, during the darkest hours of the night, with the headlights carving up midnight in pursuit of someone or something. The car moves along for quite a while until there’s a glimmering mothlight gleaming ahead steadily transforming into the shape of a man.…

Fire Walk With Me is Laura's (Sheryl Lee) story, but there's one match cut between Laura & Leland (Ray Wise) that deepens the tragedy & presents it as not singular, but generational. At the close of the initial mystery in the Twin Peaks TV show Leland has a conversation with Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle McLachlan) where he talks about being a child & seeing Bob at their old Lake House. At first glance this could simply be Leland covering his tracks as Cooper…