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May 2026

May 02, 2026
Kevin Smtih loves New Jersey. Kevin Smith loves movies. As an Xer, he’s finally getting...

April 2026

April 25, 2026
What makes Mike Leigh’s movies so beautiful and difficult is the way they resist easy...
April 09, 2026
Okay, it’s a modest swing. But Kristoffer Borgli’s new romantic tragicomedy The Drama (2026) actually...
April 06, 2026
Isaac and the Broken Enemy It’s an eternal question and a timely one: who is...
April 02, 2026
My journey with Project Hail Mary (2026) began when a student asked if we could...

March 2026

March 29, 2026
Todd Solondz’ Happiness (1998) has a reputation. It’s bleak. It’s iconoclastic. It’s perverted. It’s simply...
March 20, 2026
I finally got back to the theater this week and caught undertone (2025), a Canadian...
March 15, 2026
Forgive the brevity of this one—my friend and podcast co-host Sam has been visiting for...
March 08, 2026
I’m a little late for Black History Month, but it’s never a bad time to...

February 2026

February 24, 2026
What more can be said of Chris Marker’s groundbreaking “photo-novel,” La Jetée (1962)? Its subject...
February 21, 2026
Douglas Sirk has been called both the king of the 50s “women’s weepies” and a...
February 15, 2026
The poster for Atom Egoyan’s The Adjuster (1991) does and does not suggest pulpiness. Elias...
February 07, 2026
Another week, another Cronenberg. This time we have his Y2K dive into the wonderful world...

January 2026

January 26, 2026
I am from New Jersey. This is no secret. I love seeking out movies by...
January 26, 2026
David Cronenberg is a treasure. I’m not breaking any new ground there, but I had...
January 26, 2026
If you’ve seen an Atom Egoyan movie, you know he likes to watch. Or, better...
January 04, 2026
A new year, an older movie—1998’s 54, the tale of one 19-year-old's whirlwind experience at...

December 2025

December 31, 2025
Well, let me sin. Not boldly but of necessity. Of course, the sin is not,...
December 24, 2025
Confiteor: Edward Yang’s Yi Yi (2000) stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the great canon of films I’ve...
December 20, 2025
Along with the half the Eastern Seaboard, I’ve been incredibly sick the last week or...
December 14, 2025
I love Todd Haynes, or at least his films. He and I share a love...
December 07, 2025
Busy week and brief write-up. Over on the Criterion Channel, I glimpsed a Robert Mitchum...

November 2025

November 28, 2025
On Warren Zevon’s 1989 dystopian concept album Transverse City, there is a song called “Networking.”...
November 22, 2025
I’m a bit rundown this week/weekend, so I’ll leave you with a recommendation rather than...
November 17, 2025
I’d like to defend a film you’ve likely not heard of. 2001’s Tart comes in...
November 08, 2025
2010 was a lonely year to be a technophobe, at least in my then-tinier bubble....
November 02, 2025
It all started with Jaws (1975). Through decades of changes—digital recording, CGI, the whole gamut—the...

October 2025

October 26, 2025
The Innocents (1961) has sat on my watchlist, stealing glances and looking disappointed, for years....
October 19, 2025
“Put the planter on a horse, and he’ll ride to his own death.” So says...
October 13, 2025
I’ve taken the Ken Russell plunge. First, The Devils (1971), the writer-director’s valediction to Catholicism,...
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