Tag: mystery movies

• “Glass Onion” Watched, Enjoyed

  Thoughts: 1. Ego. I must have a lot of it. Either that or mystery writers think alike. Either way, I couldn’t help but notice that this story — the second in the ‘Knives Out’ series — shares a lot with the second installment of my Psychic Barber Mystery series. a. The main detective starts out…

  Phillip Mottaz

  December 25, 2022

  Movies

  Glass Onion, GlassOnion, Knives Out, KnivesOut, movies, mystery, mystery authors, Mystery books, mystery movies, mystery stories, Netflix, Rian Johnson, writing

• Heroism in ‘Under the Silver Lake’: “This MEANS Something” vs. “THIS Means Something?!”

  

  An attempt to explain part of why this movie works is nearly impossible and easy. It either makes sense or it doesn’t.

  Phillip Mottaz

  November 6, 2021

  books, Career, Movies, writing

  amateur sleuth, Andrew Garfield, david robert mitchell, film noir, hero, heroism, meaning, meaningless, motivation, mystery, mystery movies, noir, under the silver lake, what does under the silver lake mean