Knives Out: A landmark film, personally and culturally

Every time I hear some half-baked, anti-intellectual political take escape the mouth of anyone in mainstream filmmaking, I can’t help but think that they just don’t understand their main goal as artists: Maintain the illusion … at all costs. It means everything. Whether they know it or not, every time they utter some useless invective,

Death of the Author — Birth of the Reader

One of the worst things one can hear during a literary discussion is “yeah, but did the author intend that.” Never being one for psycho-analysis, my response to that was always “who cares?” In the end, that response is fine, as long as you can support your ideas, but it’s always good to have some