Déjà Vu (2006) Review
Denzel Washington and Tony Scott's time travel thriller. The 10 rating reflects honest evaluation across multiple viewings.
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2010sSource Code (2011) Review
Duncan Jones's time travel thriller with Jake Gyllenhaal in eight-minute consciousness-transfer repetitions. The ending raises the entire production.
2000sFrequency (2000) Review
A father in 1969 talks to his son in 1999 through a ham radio during an aurora. The film works on a viewer who comes to it cold.
Grief and LossRobert Heinlein
A reader's honest tribute to Robert Heinlein. Stranger in a Strange Land found me at twelve, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is the one I've reread a dozen times.
Grief and LossIsaac Asimov
A reader's tribute to Isaac Asimov, author of I, Robot and Foundation, who shaped my love of science fiction from age eight. Nearly 500 books, one doorway in.
Fantasy FictionGhost Healer
Cal Rourke corrects the false belief holding a ghost in a room. A literary novel about grief and certainty, with a therapist who will not pretend she believes any of it.
AdaptationThe Time Machine
A Victorian scientist builds a time machine because his wife is dying. Thirty stops across a billion years, grounded in real science, with the woman who actually ran the expedition.
FictionButtercup
A memoir told by a cat. Ten years in a Los Angeles apartment with Claudia, who was funny and sick, and the two weeks between her death and Buttercup's.
1970sHardcore (1979) – Review
Paul Schrader grew up in a strict Calvinist household in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It's a hard film to watch, not because of what it shows, which is less explicit than its reputation suggests, but because of what it understands about…
2010sInterstellar (2014) Review
Interstellar is a bad film that has convinced a large number of people it's a profound one. The misdirection is accomplished through scale: everything is so large, so loud, so visually ambitious, so heavily scored that the emptiness at the…
1990sContact (1997) Review
Contact is a film about a scientist so committed to empirical evidence that she rejects faith, who then has a transcendent personal experience, returns with no physical evidence it occurred, and is expected by the film to continue believing in…
AmbiguityThe Woman Who Sold Her Shadow
In the back corridors of Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, Claire meets a woman who offers to buy her shadow, the grief and guilt that have weighed her down since her mother's death and divorce. What starts as an impossible transaction becomes…