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April 2025

April 27, 2025
When I saw the first Paranormal Activity (2007), I knew it wasn’t real. But, at...
April 20, 2025
I hesitate to say the “movies are back” because I think anyone paying sufficient attention...
April 14, 2025
It feels bad to say, “it just didn’t connect with me.” Where there is technical...
April 09, 2025
There’s really no way to “review” Fight Club (1999), a movie at this point so...
April 06, 2025
The idea goes that to say someone lives in “interesting times” is an insult or...

March 2025

March 30, 2025
A respectful goon. The kind of henchman who pulls out your chair at dinner. A...
March 23, 2025
Ever been in front of a fan on hot summer day, no AC in sight?...
March 17, 2025
The Substance: Substance Wanted If someone whose brain were turned on eight hours a day...
March 11, 2025
I have seen three Bong Joon-ho films (Snowpiercer, Parasite, and Mickey 17). In each case,...
March 02, 2025
Salò, or the Circles of Hell During a break from a graduate seminar, I once...

February 2025

February 23, 2025
What kind of person do you imagine became a Nazi? The manly, the droves of...
February 19, 2025
Some movies seek to entertain. Others have the gall to make one think. The truly...
February 12, 2025
Way back in the early 2010s, when the world was coming to terms with the...
February 02, 2025
Hairspray: Simply Divine What do Ric Ocasek, Debbie Harry, Sonny Bono, and Ricki Lake have...

January 2025

January 27, 2025
John Waters’ Cecil B. Demented (2000) asks the tough questions like “what kind of shlock...
January 22, 2025
“Mystics” get a bad rap these days. Casting a wide net as I prepared to...
January 19, 2025
This really ought to be about David Lynch. But I can’t bring myself to give...
January 12, 2025
I had a bad week. I mean a really bad one. This was a Stroczek...
January 01, 2025
Great expectations sour easily. And, no matter what John Crowe Ransom would have us believe,...

December 2024

December 21, 2024
As much as I love Max Shreck’s portrayal of Count Orlok in 1922’s Nosferatu, the...
December 20, 2024
Why you! Yes, you! What day is today? Unfortunately, not yet Christmas Day, when we...
December 10, 2024
Our Horace? Paul Verhoeven, or so stands his reputation. His Hollywood run from Robocop (1987)...
December 06, 2024
I’m late to the party. Ricky Lau’s Mr. Vampire (1985) spawned several sequels and seems...

November 2024

November 25, 2024
War is one of our favorite abstractions. I grew up playing map-based strategy games, the...
November 17, 2024
All but the most conceptually adventurous movie-watchers experience meta-cinematic devices as an imposition. I don’t...
November 11, 2024
We all like to, as they say, be seen, no? None of us enjoys what...
November 03, 2024
Based on a novel of the same name by the director, Takeshi Kitano’s latest film...

October 2024

October 29, 2024
When I was TA’ing a course on American Television, several students told me their favorite...
October 22, 2024
Like most kids of a certain age, I went to Blockbuster often. I’d beg my...
October 10, 2024
  I will fight a pitiful rearguard action. Usually, nothing could be braver than skirmishing...
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