Time for Your Meds, Oscar

THE KILLOUGH CHRONICLES

by James Killough  @James_Killough

Since I started living with a psychic medium, I’ve been reminded that there is no such thing as coincidence.  It’s all synchronicity: everything has a reason, a purpose, a place in the Great Algorithm of Existence, which is why it cannot be mere coincidence that the Academy Award nominations came out during Mental Health Awareness Week.

If you have any doubts about the mystical Order of Things in the Universe, I invite you to screen Tree of Life, the subject of one of my reviews from last year that I had a good chuckle writing.  Despite the fact it isn’t properly speaking a narrative film because it entirely discards every Aristotelian principle of dramatic form, TOL was not only given a Best Picture nod, it also received one for Best Director, Terrence Malick.

Total Annihilation Is the New Black

CRAMER VS KILLOUGH | REVIEW starring Christopher Cramer and James Killough In the video portion that is part two of yesterday's piece, there was so much to say about Lars von Trier's Melancholia that didn't make it into the review, sadly, or it would have been half an hour long.  No doubt...