Micah Rickard
@micahrickard.bsky.social
Movie reviews at micahrickard.com | published at Bright Wall/Dark Room, Think Christian, Christ and Pop Culture, and Ekstasis.
Freelance writer and film critic by night. Aerospace engineer by day. (Home) bartender by weekend. Avid reader by freetime.
Freelance writer and film critic by night. Aerospace engineer by day. (Home) bartender by weekend. Avid reader by freetime.
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That's right... Harrison Ford
You know who was also a carpenter and spoke truth to power 🤔
December 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
That's right... Harrison Ford
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My latest piece just got published in a new and interesting spot for me—the film blog of the APA (the philosophy one)! I wrote about Orson Welles' adaptation of The Trial, with its wild production design and a brilliant performance from Anthony Perkins.
Expressing the Absurd Society in Orson Welles’s The Trial | Blog of the APA
Few authors of the twentieth century were as sensitive to the relationship between human existence and the apparent randomness of life as Franz Kafka and Albert Camus. Both writers not only imagined c...
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November 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
My latest piece just got published in a new and interesting spot for me—the film blog of the APA (the philosophy one)! I wrote about Orson Welles' adaptation of The Trial, with its wild production design and a brilliant performance from Anthony Perkins.
Reading Specters of Marx in the food court area of a Christmas market, just as Derrida intended.
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Reading Specters of Marx in the food court area of a Christmas market, just as Derrida intended.
My latest piece just got published in a new and interesting spot for me—the film blog of the APA (the philosophy one)! I wrote about Orson Welles' adaptation of The Trial, with its wild production design and a brilliant performance from Anthony Perkins.
Expressing the Absurd Society in Orson Welles’s The Trial | Blog of the APA
Few authors of the twentieth century were as sensitive to the relationship between human existence and the apparent randomness of life as Franz Kafka and Albert Camus. Both writers not only imagined c...
blog.apaonline.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
My latest piece just got published in a new and interesting spot for me—the film blog of the APA (the philosophy one)! I wrote about Orson Welles' adaptation of The Trial, with its wild production design and a brilliant performance from Anthony Perkins.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Death Cab / Postal Service (Transatlanticism 20th anniversary tour)
Nils Frahm (3 times now?)
American Football (self-titled 25th anniversary)
Thrice / mewithoutYou
Makaya McCraven
Death Cab / Postal Service (Transatlanticism 20th anniversary tour)
Nils Frahm (3 times now?)
American Football (self-titled 25th anniversary)
Thrice / mewithoutYou
Makaya McCraven
U2 (Joshua Tree 30th anniversary tour)
Relient K/Switchfoot double bill
Carly Rae Jepsen
mewithoutYou
The Mountain Goats show at Thalia Hall a few years back where John Darnielle started singing the hymn On Eagle’s Wings and about 25% of the crowd joined in
Relient K/Switchfoot double bill
Carly Rae Jepsen
mewithoutYou
The Mountain Goats show at Thalia Hall a few years back where John Darnielle started singing the hymn On Eagle’s Wings and about 25% of the crowd joined in
introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Depeche Mode
Nine Inch Nails
The Hooters
John Carpenter
Howard Shore
Depeche Mode
Nine Inch Nails
The Hooters
John Carpenter
Howard Shore
November 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Death Cab / Postal Service (Transatlanticism 20th anniversary tour)
Nils Frahm (3 times now?)
American Football (self-titled 25th anniversary)
Thrice / mewithoutYou
Makaya McCraven
Death Cab / Postal Service (Transatlanticism 20th anniversary tour)
Nils Frahm (3 times now?)
American Football (self-titled 25th anniversary)
Thrice / mewithoutYou
Makaya McCraven
Today I'm thankful that Rian Johnson decided to insert an Arrested Development ARM OFF gag in his latest
November 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Today I'm thankful that Rian Johnson decided to insert an Arrested Development ARM OFF gag in his latest
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I don’t really get pecan pie as a concept, but it’s very good at drawing the safeties away from the targets I really wanna hit at dessert
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I don’t really get pecan pie as a concept, but it’s very good at drawing the safeties away from the targets I really wanna hit at dessert
I think my top three right now are
1. It Was Just an Accident
2. Black Bag
3. Eephus (based on US release date)
1. It Was Just an Accident
2. Black Bag
3. Eephus (based on US release date)
Without saying Sinners, name your film of the year.
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I think my top three right now are
1. It Was Just an Accident
2. Black Bag
3. Eephus (based on US release date)
1. It Was Just an Accident
2. Black Bag
3. Eephus (based on US release date)
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Some people call it "reading Being & Time." Others call it "crawling into the Heidy-hole." In both cases, Dasein has been called forward into its ownmost possibilities . . .
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Some people call it "reading Being & Time." Others call it "crawling into the Heidy-hole." In both cases, Dasein has been called forward into its ownmost possibilities . . .
So many options (BLACK GIRL, MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON, THE THIN BLUE LINE), but I'll say finally sitting down with METROPOLIS. One of those movies that no amount of a priori familiarity can weaken—so wild and impressive and creative.
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 10, 2025 at 8:06 AM
So many options (BLACK GIRL, MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON, THE THIN BLUE LINE), but I'll say finally sitting down with METROPOLIS. One of those movies that no amount of a priori familiarity can weaken—so wild and impressive and creative.
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“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
I'm rather mixed on A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE: "The jumbled techniques achieve only a muddled effectiveness, and the structure gradually chips away at the tension... By the end of the film, the torment of the first third is a distant memory, and what remains feels like mere exercise."
Time Is the Enemy in (and of) A House of Dynamite — micah rickard
Movie review of Kathryn Bigelow's messy political thriller, A House of Dynamite, starring Rebecca Ferguson and Idris Elba.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I'm rather mixed on A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE: "The jumbled techniques achieve only a muddled effectiveness, and the structure gradually chips away at the tension... By the end of the film, the torment of the first third is a distant memory, and what remains feels like mere exercise."
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If anyone is interested in the sequel to COHERENCE, we finally landed on a story worthy of the mission. Unless the actors revolt, we will probably do it just like the first one, where they know their own character details, but don't know what the other actors are going to say or do. Like real life.
November 3, 2025 at 6:19 AM
If anyone is interested in the sequel to COHERENCE, we finally landed on a story worthy of the mission. Unless the actors revolt, we will probably do it just like the first one, where they know their own character details, but don't know what the other actors are going to say or do. Like real life.
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Tell me the devil doesn't exist. Watch this baseball game and tell me the devil doesn't exist.
November 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Tell me the devil doesn't exist. Watch this baseball game and tell me the devil doesn't exist.
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Blake Treinen in the bullpen watching a six-hour YouTube video about chemtrails and who REALLY profits from weather modification on his phone. This is part of his process. He can't give up three straight doubles unless he's in the right mindset.
November 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Blake Treinen in the bullpen watching a six-hour YouTube video about chemtrails and who REALLY profits from weather modification on his phone. This is part of his process. He can't give up three straight doubles unless he's in the right mindset.
Wow, drake still can't get a win
November 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Wow, drake still can't get a win
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Just incredibly, unnecessarily cruel. And I’d be shocked if there wasn’t wanton corruption going on here, too.
It literally took decades of advocacy to pass these reforms, which would have prevented prison phone and teleconferencing companies from ripping off inmates and their families to the tune of hundreds of millions annually
F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Just incredibly, unnecessarily cruel. And I’d be shocked if there wasn’t wanton corruption going on here, too.
My thoughts on FRANKENSTEIN: "Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein revels in the mythological diorama that Shelley gives to him, where grand (if familiar) ideas clash, where awe meets awful violence, where humanity meets God meets the demonic."
Frankenstein: A Modern Re-Retelling — micah rickard
Movie review of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, an visually grand adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel
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October 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
My thoughts on FRANKENSTEIN: "Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein revels in the mythological diorama that Shelley gives to him, where grand (if familiar) ideas clash, where awe meets awful violence, where humanity meets God meets the demonic."
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Baseball enjoyers 🤝 guests at Hill House
you know, I am coming around to accepting that I cannot bear very much reality
October 28, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Baseball enjoyers 🤝 guests at Hill House
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My review of Kelly Reichardt's THE MASTERMIND, which is all about "the consequences of following dreams that haven’t really been thought through... It’s also the coziest movie of the year."
(Plus a brief, surprisingly fitting detour to Paris)
(Plus a brief, surprisingly fitting detour to Paris)
The Mastermind, Art Heists, and America Adrift — micah rickard
Movie review of Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind, a comedy art heist movie starring Josh O'Connor (Challengers, La Chimera).
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October 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
My review of Kelly Reichardt's THE MASTERMIND, which is all about "the consequences of following dreams that haven’t really been thought through... It’s also the coziest movie of the year."
(Plus a brief, surprisingly fitting detour to Paris)
(Plus a brief, surprisingly fitting detour to Paris)
There's only one proper way to leave Paris
October 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
There's only one proper way to leave Paris
My review of Kelly Reichardt's THE MASTERMIND, which is all about "the consequences of following dreams that haven’t really been thought through... It’s also the coziest movie of the year."
(Plus a brief, surprisingly fitting detour to Paris)
(Plus a brief, surprisingly fitting detour to Paris)
The Mastermind, Art Heists, and America Adrift — micah rickard
Movie review of Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind, a comedy art heist movie starring Josh O'Connor (Challengers, La Chimera).
www.micahrickard.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
My review of Kelly Reichardt's THE MASTERMIND, which is all about "the consequences of following dreams that haven’t really been thought through... It’s also the coziest movie of the year."
(Plus a brief, surprisingly fitting detour to Paris)
(Plus a brief, surprisingly fitting detour to Paris)
I thought it was nice for Paris to have so many homages to Kieslowski scattered about. A bit of an odd choice, but a really moving one
October 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I thought it was nice for Paris to have so many homages to Kieslowski scattered about. A bit of an odd choice, but a really moving one