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March 2024

March 12, 2024
This one is likely to be short. I’ve just handed in my dissertation, and I...
March 04, 2024
I like Showgirls (1995) and Cocktail (1988). I’ve got a thing for the underdog, the...

February 2024

February 26, 2024
In middle school, I played Albert in Bye Bye Birdie (1960), a musical loosely based...
February 19, 2024
As a kid, I spent countless hours drawing up maps of imaginary civil wars, feuding...
February 13, 2024
I’ve lounged the beaches from San Juan to Cinque Terre, but I prefer a brisk....
February 07, 2024
I have become a man, undertaken a solemn duty impressed only upon film critics, fathers,...

January 2024

January 29, 2024
Toward the end of writer-director Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous (2020) the teenage Rolling Stone reporter...
January 22, 2024
Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole (1951) effects a miracle. Its protagonist, Charles Tatum (Kirk...
January 16, 2024
Life is filled with mundane, almost invisible negotiations. Some are external: who is going to...
January 10, 2024
Ten years ago, two friends and I holed up in a cabin in Woolwine, VA,...
January 02, 2024
Curses are a nasty business and generational ones infinitely more so. It’s easy to call...

December 2023

December 28, 2023
Trying to write about Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander (1982) leaves me feeling a bit...
December 19, 2023
George A. Romero’s Martin (1977) does for the vampire film what Night of the Living...
December 11, 2023
“Holding Over,” I gather, is what boarding schoolers call getting stuck on campus during a...
December 08, 2023
Before there was South Park (1997-Present) there was Cannibal! The Musical (1993), Trey Parker’s directorial...
December 05, 2023
I’ll do my best to stop this from becoming a screed. Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn (2023)...

November 2023

November 27, 2023
  Liliana Cavani’s The Skin (1981) only has 13 user reviews on IMDb, three of...
November 20, 2023
Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving (2023) is a holiday success story. This is your classic popcorn slasher,...
November 16, 2023
Brian De Palma’s Blow Out (1981) begins where it ends. On its surface, there’s nothing...
November 10, 2023
Another movie about would-be celebrity self-immolation? We’ve got Showgirls (1996), Mulholland Drive (2001), and many...

October 2023

October 31, 2023
"There was blood upon her white dress, and the signs of her terrible efforts to...
October 24, 2023
The Net (1995) is a Cassandra of a film, if Cassandra’s curse were to be...
October 18, 2023
Voyeurism is one of those things. Most of us don’t peep through people’s windows or...
October 11, 2023
I Think We’re Alone Now (2008) is about two very different people who arrive at...
October 06, 2023
“Gimme your quietest indie film.” “No, that’s too quiet and indie.” - Hans Mole-chan I...
October 05, 2023
Most mornings my wife and I walk our dogs early in the morning. I mean,...
October 05, 2023
I don’t like saying movies age poorly. It feels impolite like asking a lady her...
October 05, 2023
I did not shoot the sheriff. I didn’t even shoot the deputy. And I most...

September 2023

September 12, 2023
Massacre at Central High (1976) has that peculiar quality by which something that anticipates a...
September 11, 2023
Orson Welles’ F for Fake (1973) is, for all its pretense of devilishness, a very...
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