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Issue 79: Best of 2019

January 2020

Leonardo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton in ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD | art by Brianna Ashby

Still Here

Travis Woods·
Issue 79: Best of 2019
A Journey Through The Funky Fanfare of Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood Read More
Song Lang (2018) | HKLGFF

In Song Lang, A World of Refugee Memory

Victoria Huynh·
Issue 79: Best of 2019
Queer people, refugees, those of us displaced from the linearity of the present who love people and places long gone: we’re always time traveling. We journey between the possible and impossible by way of memory, and art emerges in the crossing. Read More
Bojack Horseman | Netflix

BoJack Horseman and Ibsen: Prestige Television’s Greatest Trick

Derrick Brak·
Issue 79: Best of 2019
Neither BoJack Horseman nor the plays of Henrik Ibsen tell stories about magic, but the ways in which creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg has woven the playwright into his show is a narrative trick as good as any. Read More
It Chapter Two (2019) | Warner Bros. Pictures

The Burning of Beverly Marsh

Andie Newell·
Issue 79: Best of 2019
There was no shortage of enthralling female protagonists in 2019, many in films much more engaging than It Chapter Two—but Beverly Marsh is the one I keep coming back to. Read More
Chris Pine in KNIVES OUT | art by Brianna Ashby

My House, My Coffee, My Rules

Kelsey Ford·
Issue 79: Best of 2019
Kelsey Ford on murder mysteries, gentleman sleuths, and Rian Johnson's Knives Out. Read More
Pain and Glory (2019) | Sony Pictures Classics

Consciousness and Creativity in Pain and Glory

George Kowalik·
Issue 79: Best of 2019
Pedro Almodóvar's Pain and Glory is a film unapologetically about films, where the subject is equal parts passion and profession, addiction and therapy. Read More
Honey Boy (2019) | Amazon Studios

Ghost Stories: On Honey Boy and Doctor Sleep

Nathan Frontiero·
Issue 79: Best of 2019
Honey Boy and Doctor Sleep bleed from the same heart, an intimate diptych about abused boys who grow into men haunted by and reaching for their fathers. Read More
Robert De Niro in THE IRISHMAN (2019) | art by Tony Stella

It’s What It Is

Kellie Herson·
Issue 79: Best of 2019
Instead of taking issue with the facts of what Frank Sheeran tells us, The Irishman unravels the way he positions himself within his account. Read More
I Think You Should Leave | Netflix

I Think You Should Leave, or: How I Learned to Sate My Existential Dread with The Absurd

Brianna Zigler·
Issue 79: Best of 2019
Whenever I put on I Think You Should Leave, its bedlam feels like a weighted blanket—a brief and soothing respite from the horrible truths of the outside world. Read More
The Beach Bum (2019) | art by Tony Stella

In The Year of The Impossible Object

Ethan Warren·
Issue 79: Best of 2019
The way we experience movies shapes the way we experience life, and to experience a movie like The Beach Bum, to ingest and absorb this much giddy existential gratitude, strikes at least this viewer as quite a blessing. Read More

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