Warning: Discusses spoilers for multiple films/miniseries: Made of Honor (2008), My First Wedding (2006), The Notebook (2004), Ready or Not Duology (2019 and 2026), Something Very Bad is Going to Happen (2026), and Eternity (2025). If you’ve been on TikTok at any point in the past few months, you have probably heard a snippet from “Stop The Wedding!” This single from Ashe’s new album, The Girl of Your […]
As the leaves turn and deadlines quickly approach, this time in the school year is particularly stressful and particularly beautiful. When it gets difficult to remember the beauty in the midst of the stress, that is my cue to turn on Dead Poets Society. For those who don’t know, Dead Poets Society is a 1989 film set at a prestigious boarding school in 1959.
‘This film is dedicated to all those whose sole source of indignation is a trampled-on trifle.’ The final line of Chytilová’s brilliantly eclectic, infectious film seems to be written in anticipation of its condemnation by, among others, the Czechoslovak Communist Party. If you’re more concerned with the destruction of a trifle than the real world, […]