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Tl:Dr - (Feels good to do that on a new site) Local Californian has opinions on movies! I'd have on on her opinions about movies if I'd ever seen any of them, but I've only seen Citizen Kane (Not reviewed, only mentioned) and West Side Story which I agree with Kael about, but that's more because I'm a bitter hater of Romeo and Juliet. Kaels writing is really pretty and I can tell she deeply cares about her subject. And I don't think she ever wanted any of the movies to eviscerated to be bad, but she wasn't going to write anyone a puff piece, y'know? Additionally this was int resting to read from a time capsule sort of perspective. Like getting to look back at how people were thinking about media in the 50s/60s. Kaels thoughts on relations between men/women and consent WOULD NOT land today but I thought it was fascinating to read about. Good book. You should read it.

TL;Dr - My Book of the Year in 2022. In a series of essays put together by the daughter of the man who originally let Lolita debut on the US stage, Jenny Milton Quigley and 30 other modern essayists take the Humbert Humbert, Valdimir Nabakov, 1950s America and a modern "cancel culture' to task. I ate this book like it was fried and dipped in chocolate. I came back for seconds. I rotated it in my brain like a freaking rotisserie chicken and I'm a vegetarian. I like Lolita. I like it a lot. I liked it's dissection even more. By cracking open a book as difficult as Lolita I felt I finally had a glimmer of understanding of what it was even trying to be about. Putting in context, comparing it to real life, examining Nabokov, the tragedy of Dolores Haze and looking through at every critical lens possible made me not only love the OG novel but really fall for everyone who contributed to a novel that's barely talked about today. Read this one!!!