i gave a star rating to nomadland back when it came out on hulu but never wrote a review.

what’s there to say at this point that hasn’t already been said about this gorgeous piece of americana art? not since all gas no brakes has someone captured what it’s like to be on the lonely highway with nowhere to go while finding the strength and resilience to move forward. just like all gas no brakes.

how about this: since winning…

it’s funny: i watched yan’s directorial debut with that sneaking kernel of film obsessed knowledge that this was the film that executives at warner and dc saw (i’m guessing robbie too) that lead to the hiring to glitterbomb birds of prey: the emancipation of colorful, absurd, violent and wacky supervillain cosplay girlfriend to its colorful, absurd, violent and wacky iteration. so, naturally, i was expecting more of the same.

what’s here is a much more charmingly somber interconnected story about china’s…

clearly this film is a warning from the future:

we’ve gotten so lost in our phones and our own social media obsessions that 4 hyper-detailed sentient animated avatars time travel back to 2021 to try to warn us of our impending doom in the form of content we can only comprehend now:

a netflix movie.

that wasn’t actual documentation of a furby in a mall. it’s the furby non-fungible token we create a few years from now that infests our…