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February 2023

February 17, 2023
Right now I’m precepting a course on American Television. The truth is that my favorite...
February 12, 2023
Pedro Almodóvar’s Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989) is not a film for today....
February 11, 2023
Adapted from a Neil Gaiman short story, the John Cameron Mitchell-directed How to Talk to...
February 01, 2023
I confess before God and you, my brothers and sisters, that I have gravely sinned....

January 2023

January 31, 2023
It’s not giving much away to say that 500 Days of Summer (2009) is about...
January 30, 2023
Duplex (2003) is the kind of black comedy you don’t see much these days. Streaming...
January 29, 2023
When we found out Norm Macdonald died, my wife and I set our hearts on...
January 23, 2023
Despite my hopeless pride in coming from New Jersey (being a Raiders fan, despair comes...
January 22, 2023
You’d have to come from a family both normal and strange to gather and watch...
January 21, 2023
Much to some Baby Boomers’ chagrin, our moment bears comparison with the tumultuous 1960s. Then,...
January 20, 2023
The nigher the end, the wonkier the appetite. Whether it’s Jay and Silent Bob in...
January 19, 2023
If you combined the stories of “Little Red Riding Hood” and Last House on the...
January 18, 2023
It was about 10 years ago that, driving a friend of mine to some late-night...
January 17, 2023
Very few of you, I assume, have heard of Tucker (2000-2001). No, I don’t mean...
January 09, 2023
Sometime in the summer of 2009 I opened video on-demand as I played World of...
January 02, 2023
Baseball is not America’s pastime. Sure, we may call it that. But this is misdirection...

November 2022

November 05, 2022
Identikit (1974, also called The Driver’s Seat) sets its terms of engagement from the very...

October 2022

October 22, 2022
It might be Sweeney Todd’s (2007) fault. When I hear about a barber-serial killer, I...
October 20, 2022
Anyone who has spent time on the Christian part of the internet knows that the...
October 18, 2022
If you’re looking for a great documentary, look no further than Vice’s YouTube showcase of...
October 15, 2022
Shakes the Clown (1991) sounds great on paper. That’s why I put it on (well,...
October 08, 2022
When I was a kid, two pieces of media ruined a plethora of movie endings...
October 01, 2022
I saw Kevin Smith’s Clerks III (2022) the first night it was in theaters. I...

September 2022

September 30, 2022
Mark Proksch is great. So great, in fact, that I, jealous man that I am,...
September 06, 2022
1998’s The Last Broadcast is a movie made for me. I am a staunch New...

August 2022

August 26, 2022
Reincarnation always seemed worse than Hell to me. Never mind that I feel pretty bound...
August 19, 2022
I am the wrong person to review this movie. As long as I can remember,...
August 12, 2022
Do you remember when Gilbert Gottfried (rest in peace) was met with jeers of “too...
August 08, 2022
Joachim Trier’s Oslo, August 31st (2011) is the perfect film to watch as an early...
August 04, 2022
Now I finally know why all the videos I had to watch in class in...
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