Holding out for Echo Park

Joseph Cotten

Thanks to the great @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social, here’s the cricket bat speech. Henry has been asked to evaluate a play by a young guy fresh from prison, whom his very leftie wife has sort of adopted as a pet -

Totoro
Ponyo
Spirited Away

A handy rule of thumb I learned writing criticism is that most people will sort of mildly like most of the things they watch, only occasionally tipping over into outright love or hate. It's the people who mildly DISLIKE a thing and get mad others don't who drive too much online discourse.