Posted in September 2017

TV Review: Top of the Lake: China Girl

TV Review: Top of the Lake: China Girl

Oh, Top of the Lake: China Girl; I wish I liked you better.  The first season of Jane Campion’s SundanceTV series is phenomenal, make no mistake; also make no mistake that she should have left it at one season, assuming that her plan for following it up was always, well, this. Top of the Lake: China Girl … Continue reading

Review: 1%, 2017, dir. Stephen McCallum

Review: 1%, 2017, dir. Stephen McCallum

I suspect most will find 1% entertaining enough that my remote TIFF review of the film (so called because I reviewed the film in Boston and not on-location at TIFF) will strike some as maybe a little bit unfair or even a bit pretentious. Well…you’re wrong! It’s neither of these things. If anything, I’m just being … Continue reading

WBUR’s Fall TV Preview Guide-o-matic

WBUR’s Fall TV Preview Guide-o-matic

I put together a big ol’ list piece for The ARTery about what’s coming to television this Fall season. There’s a lot! Some of it even looks good! (Some of it, by contrast, looks like hot garbage, but I didn’t write about any of that stuff. I just wrote about stuff that I think looks … Continue reading

Interview: Janicza Bravo & Brett Gelman, Lemon

Interview: Janicza Bravo & Brett Gelman, Lemon

Sick of hearing me talk about Lemon? Tough noogies: Here’s more of me talking about Lemon, this time in conversation with Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman. Bravo directed the thing; Gelman starred in the thing; they both wrote the thing together. It’s a good thing! (The movie, I mean. The interview is a good thing, too, though, … Continue reading