Ken Ilgunas
May 13
The Prison Movie Hall of Fame and other Consumables
Movies Land and Sons (Iceland, 1980) I don’t know how anyone would access this delightful little film, but I watched it on a connecting...
Ken Ilgunas
Jan 31
Barbenheimer stunk. Watch these instead.
Movies Crumb (1994, USA) Crumb and his weirdo brothers make this documentary into a sort of Northeastern Gothic. I haven’t seen many of...
Ken Ilgunas
Dec 19, 2023
The Best Stuff I Consumed - 2023
Movies It was a fruitful movie-watching year for me, partly because I had a lot of long flights on United Airlines, which has a...
Ken Ilgunas
Dec 7, 2023
To be consumed: UFOs, Caribou, and Killer Angels
Films Past Lives (2023, US & South Korea) - Just go ahead and give this the Oscar for Best Picture. It’s a beautiful movie about romantic...
Ken Ilgunas
Nov 5, 2023
To be consumed: Problematic movies about problematic men
Elena (2011, Russian) - I can’t seem to write one of these newsletters without mentioning an Andrey Zvyagintsev film. Zvyagintsev’s Elena...
Ken Ilgunas
Sep 28, 2023
What to Consume: Russian Rot and How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Movies The Return (2003), Leviathan (2014), and Loveless (2017) These are all Russian movies by director Andrey Zvyagintsev. These films...
Ken Ilgunas
Feb 8, 2023
Two Months of Consumption: Why We Need Daredevils and the Problem with Pixar
Movies I’ve watched 18 movies in 62 days. If it was up to me, I’d be watching a movie a night, but two a week is not bad for a house...
Ken Ilgunas
Nov 28, 2022
What I’ve consumed: November ’22
Movies I have a highbrow list of movies to watch almost five hundred movies long. In the last month or two I’ve consumed — with the help...