BRAD'S STATUS dir. Mike White (2017)

(Steph noticed that the kids at Tufts apparently toss basketballs to each other on the quad? Talk about a back-up school!)

A companion piece to ENLIGHTENED, but with male ego and need for respect as the driving force behind a man's mental and emotional roller coster. Ben Stiller plays a veneered Greenberg, the young folks lay wisdom tenderly, and Luke Wilson just needs more, bigger roles. Mike White works in nuance and small spaces, tango doesn't need a ballroom, a pier is just fine.

Harold Budd LUXA (1996)

I'm looking forward to enjoying excavating into our overflowing bounty of great art for decades to come, I hope we all survive!!!!

Joanna Brouk THE SPACE BETWEEN (1981)

From St. Louis to Berkeley and straight on til morning.  Ms. Brouk  transcended to the next and left a slipstream.  Hitch a ride.

Shadowlands 002 (2018)

Rip City vets' new project, atmospheric yet immediate, dread with beats per minute. A binding spell requires a quiet night.

(Please listen to this and ignore the Decemberists' new album with everything you got, goth and grind, vampires don't dress like vampires, Colin Meloy will suck your life force, you've been warned.)

GOOD TIME dir. Ben Safdie and Josh Safdie (2017)

Takes a minute to hit the gas, but when it does it is cut from the BLUE RUIN/GREEN ROOM cloth: awful scenarios with desperate people doing everything they can in each circumstance just to get to another, like every situation is its own escape room. Of Mice and Men inverted story-structure-wise and upgraded with a fraternal hysteria of loyalty.  I am a sucker for unrelenting fugitive situations and Robert Pattinson owns in this one. Coupled with the best soundtrack of the year, by Oneohtrix Point Never, the night sweats are real and nooses only get tighter.

ps
It had the most comically lengthy opening credits run that I've ever seen.