Day: October 4, 2023

Revisiting Hal Hartley

TomOctober 4, 2023Articles, Cinema

The Criterion channel has been doing a Hal Hartley retrospective, so I decided to watch or re-watch some of his films. As you may know, Hartley was one of the indie cinema darlings of the early 1990s, together with the likes of Jim Jarmusch and others. Jarmusch is still around, but Hal Hartley, which had…

Ye shall know them by their fruits

TomOctober 4, 2023Articles

One of the strangest aspects of contemporary pop culture is how dark a lot of it is, and how drenched it has become in all kinds of occult symbolism. I am way too old to personally follow pop music, and I don’t really watch most Hollywood movies anymore either, but sites such as Vigilant Citizen,…