I haven’t made any notable public rumblings in regards to the results of our presidential election. This is for a good, simple reason: No amount of rumblings can accurately capture the depth of my feelings on the climax of this awful campaign cycle, though I will offer that to describe Tuesday, November 8th, 2016, as … Continue reading →
I’m on again, off again with Denis Villeneuve; I’m unabashedly wild about Enemy, but I never could stand Prisoners and I can only enjoy Sicario as long as I don’t think too much about it. With Arrival, I’m closer to Enemy than not – it worked on me, and worked on everyone around me, which may be because it’s genuinely good … Continue reading →
I never got around to seeing Bryan Bertino’s second film, Mockingbird, his follow up to his 2008 debut The Strangers. Based on reviews, I’m not sure I want to, but based on his latest picture, The Monster, maybe I might just. (Who knows! I’m so fickle! That means I’m fun.) The Monster is The Strangers‘ distant kin, a monster film with … Continue reading →
I had a feeling that this editorial I wrote for Paste Magazine about Mel Gibson, Blood Father, Hacksaw Ridge, his 2006 anti-Semitic rant, and forgiveness would be met with despondent or apathetic reactions, and based on the few comments that have been posted already, it seems I was right. Sorry. I meant to have a draft on … Continue reading →
Surprise: I didn’t like a Jeff Nichols movie. I know the score on my review of Loving, published, as usual, over at Paste Magazine, is low, but I actually appreciate it significantly more than Midnight Special, which is the most boring and bland movie of 2016 whose supporters refuse to accept that it is boring and bland. Loving‘s … Continue reading →
I’ve not yet stumbled upon a review of Moonlight that has found a way to associate the film’s message with the central philosophies of the Black Lives Matter movement, mostly because that movement is not germane to the film’s messages and because, I suspect, any white author writing about Barry Jenkins’ extraordinary second feature is smart … Continue reading →
Mel Brooks came to the Wang Theatre here in Boston on October 22nd, and since I was planning on seeing him live anyways, I figured I might as well write about the experience for Paste Magazine too. So I did! You should just go read the piece. I don’t feel like blowing another hundred or … Continue reading →
In Anna Muylaert’s Don’t Call Me Son, a young man, Pierre, learns that his mother isn’t really his mother, and that he was snatched from his birth family as a baby; this leads to his new family becoming reintroduced to him after his abduction, which means they learn that their long-lost son likes to wear women’s … Continue reading →
October’s slate of releases on The Criterion Collection is pretty great, but maybe don’t take that from me, because I am a Guillermo del Toro partisan: Take it from all of us at Paste Magazine’s Criterion round-up team. October isn’t just about del Toro, though it mostly is. It’s also about Kenji Mizoguchi, Luis García … Continue reading →
Well, I meant to share this on the ol’ blog sooner, but we’re only three days out from last month so I don’t think the delay is that great an infraction: Paste Magazine’s got their list of the best ten movies in theaters as of October, and you should go look at it! Great flicks, … Continue reading →
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