Jimmy Review: A B-24 Pilot and the Limits of Reassurance
Colonel Terrill asks James Stewart to give the men a speech. They need heartening, and he has an actor on...
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At the end of a delivery round, Tom blows a horn. Her boss brings her another batch of parcels, and she moves on to the next part of the mountain village. The arrangement is simple enough for a girl on her first day at the post office. Take a parcel from the bag, knock or ring, carry on. The horn measures a successful day’s work. It sounds just the same if Tom has spent the time between deliveries peering through windows. A girl in a red hood carrying something to somebody’s house is a familiar figure across many versions of...

Colonel Terrill asks James Stewart to give the men a speech. They need heartening, and he has an actor on hand who knows how to get a room to listen. KJ Apa gives Stewart the familiar, slightly uneven cadence and the posture of a man who has never quite settled into his own height. There is something companionable in the way the words come out of him. The men respond. For the duration of the address, Stewart can make the prospect of climbing back into a bomber feel like a thing they can face together. The condolence letters have to...

Kai books an appointment to find himself. He sees a poster in the woods, follows up on its promise of self-discovery, and arrives at a clinic where Asumi’s assistant slips him a drug. Soon he and Asumi are sharing a dream. It’s an efficient appointment, if you leave out the part where the patient gets to decide what happens to him. Kai has agreed to be curious about himself. The clinic takes that as permission to satisfy somebody else’s curiosity. Kyo tries a different shortcut. With the drug that gives Kefi its title, she switches bodies with her sexual partners....

The men on the committee in David Balda’s Manipulation keep coming back to the same word, “enemies.” They give it the weight you’d expect from people discussing a threat they take seriously. For anyone outside that room, though, the word could point almost anywhere. Matteo (Radoslav Gavlas), a young recruit to the secret society his father belongs to, is given a name to work with. His assignment puts him in contact with Father Vitus (Heino Ferch), a priest who matters to the order’s plans for the Catholic Church. Having a name gives us somebody to watch. What we could use...

A ringing phone can make an empty frame look as if it’s withholding evidence. In Katharine Round’s Ghost Town, the phone rings after dark in an unoccupied box. The eye looks for somebody who might answer it. One of the film’s taxi drivers recalls seeing figures crowd into a phone box after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. He thought they were trying to get home. The ring and the recollection have different claims on our belief, yet each makes the other harder to put out of mind. Round gets a great deal of suspense out of a sound that...

Cummerbund Bandersnatch has the plum vowels of a man who expects to be listened to, which makes him an especially funny choice to explain how to operate a point-and-click adventure. He talks you through the controls himself, addressing you directly with the same assurance he brings to the business of being a Victorian gentleman. In Heir of the Dog, that assurance will soon carry him as far as drinking an experimental tonic in his uncle’s wrecked workshop. For the moment, it makes learning how to click on things feel like the first joke you and Cummerbund are in on together....
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At the end of a delivery round, Tom blows a horn. Her boss brings her another batch of parcels, and she moves on to the next part of the mountain...
Colonel Terrill asks James Stewart to give the men a speech. They need heartening, and he has an actor on hand who knows how to get a room to listen....
Kai books an appointment to find himself. He sees a poster in the woods, follows up on its promise of self-discovery, and arrives at a clinic where Asumi’s assistant slips...
The men on the committee in David Balda’s Manipulation keep coming back to the same word, “enemies.” They give it the weight you’d expect from people discussing a threat they...
A ringing phone can make an empty frame look as if it’s withholding evidence. In Katharine Round’s Ghost Town, the phone rings after dark in an unoccupied box. The eye...
Cummerbund Bandersnatch has the plum vowels of a man who expects to be listened to, which makes him an especially funny choice to explain how to operate a point-and-click adventure....
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At the end of a delivery round, Tom blows a horn. Her boss brings her another batch of parcels, and...
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