"Who you gon' be tonight Zola?"

the cinematography on point, the nails done, the hair did, the image calculated, distracting, dissociating. for my money the best movie A24's produced, like it's the peak, a sneaky crest before their long trough. for more money, maybe of the most important movies we'll circle back to in understanding the internet's capacity for pleasure & manipulation. if not that then it's probably the most interesting. love Riley Keogh in the role of a rancid Gwen…

there's something about the true-not crime-not, fact or fiction, what's in that which appeals to humanity's worst angels to fill in the blanks with monstrous actors—a kidnapping, a rape, a yonic rift in time somewhen else, through the rock and to another place—I found essential to my understanding of Picnic at Hanging Rock, if ever such an understanding was possible.

lightly sleeping beauties posed in muslin drape, thicket brush, caught in a Shangri-La netting as lush as it is miserably unfinished. Peter…