I own the Winks book already, but it looks like University of Chicago Press will be getting some of my money tonight so I can delve into the one by @gbarnhisel.bsky.social.

I need you to respect the films of Oz Perkins, including “The Blackcoat’s Daughter.”

Let’s go deep and esoteric to make the insult sting a bit more: Hegseth and Kennedy are the types to prefer Optimum Nutrition supplements to Promix and Thorne.

One of my favorite facts about James Jesus Angleton — arguably the father of counterintelligence, regardless of his later breakdown — is that he was an amateur poet who was mentored by none other than Ezra Pound.

Not only is it a great film, but it’s got a phenomenal Scott Walker soundtrack.

I liked Skylight quite a bit, too, when I lived in the neighborhood, but let’s be frank: it is a *bit* Bolshie…

That’s funny: I have the totally opposite approach. As long as I can tell if I’ll like the general tone, I want to know as little as human possible before I see a film.

Look, I generally like your posts and comments, but this sounds like a complaint against the whole genre, not Perkins in particular.

I’ll confess, when I realized that it was produced by Tencent, I got pretty worried. But the fact that it’s on Criterion — to which I subscribe, anyway — means that I won’t directly be funding a company complicit in some of the CCP's more horrific tech-enabled abuses.