Bryan Strawser

Musings from the land of winter & road construction

Category: Movies

Dishonest and Demagogic

In today’s Slate, Christopher Hitchens writes of Fahrenheit 9/11: To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. [...]

And a River Runs Through It

Dear Jessie: As the moon lingers a moment over the bitterroots before its descent into the invisible, my mind is filled with song. I find I am humming, softly, not to the music, but to somethign else. Someplace else. A place remembered. A field of grass where no one seemed to have been, except for [...]