My WordPress theme design (Armory) has stopped updating and hasn’t for years. My fault entirely. The Revolution slider has also stopped functioning. It’s now obsolete, and almost the whole thematic structure and operation of Hollywood Elsewhere has collapsed into a heap of soggy dysfunctional pretzels. We’ve lost the style sheet.
My designer and I are now searching for a new theme (possibly Flexblog) and a new provider of a slider mechanism. The process will take a few hours but it’ll be a good thing to finally update the PHP and streamline the whole shebang according to 2025 standards.
Meanwhile I’m expanding upon my initial comment-thread post about PTA’s One Battle After Another (WB, 9.26). which I saw and quite liked (the absurd woke mindset aside) yesterday morning. The embargo lifts at noon eastern, 9 am Pacific.
I saw four films yesterday — One Battle After Another, plus (2) Darren Aronofsky‘s Caught Stealing (which I hated with a passion — I couldn’t stop muttering “go fuck yourself, go fuck yourself, go fuck yourself” to Austin Butler‘s lead character…I wanted him to take a bullet to the head so I wouldn’t have to hang with his sorry, beer-slurping ass), (3) Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin‘s Splitsville, a marital infidelity freestyle-farce sitcom which I didn’t exactly “like” but found unusual and occasionally funny and semi-diverting and therefore tolerable (although Covino and Marvin, who play the two male leads, aren’t nearly attractive enough to enlist audience empathy and identification — if I was gay or a woman I definitely wouldn’t want to fuck these guys…no way), and (4) Dag Johan Haugerud‘s Dreams (Sex Love), a quietly first-rate Norwegian drama that played in competition in Berlin last February and is now screening at the Film Forum.