Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

In content like Honoré de Balzac's 1831 Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu or George Gissing's 1891 New Grub Street, creatives describe the struggle that fellow creatives face in producing high-quality content.

Monster Hunter (2020) is a simple and pure film, most of which could be understood as a silent, made for people who seek images of beauty, horror, valor. Without credits it runs perhaps 95 minutes. It contains several monsters, interesting topography, and a large, piratical cat.

If you like an art that was produced under a regime, whatever the means of production or intentions of the artist, it follows that the regime is or was good. This is why I adore the Brazilian military junta, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, the antebellum United States...

Quality Television was a neoliberal psyop developed because your bosses were mad that you wouldn't answer emails for two hours if you were in a movie theater.

You go to the mutiplex. Instead of three turgid franchise films hogging all sixteen screens, there are sixteen basically interchangable 78-minute oaters featuring some combination of rodeo stars, ex-college football standouts, Wes Studi, and Walton Goggins. Everyone wants this.

Hoping that a chastened Hollywood will learn the only logical lesson from the current pandemic and the pressure it has placed on too-big-to-fail tentpole productions, and shrewdly resume yearly churning out literally hundreds of B-Westerns.