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July 2022

July 27, 2022
For all its motivating potential, or perhaps because of it, “freedom” is one of those...
July 22, 2022
A disfigured corpse sits in a burnt-out helicopter somewhere in the Kuwaiti desert. The officer...
July 18, 2022
Tammy and the T-Rex (1994) is a B-movie done well and under immense pressure. Maybe...
July 17, 2022
As a five-year-old in 1999, I remember gawking at the Burger King tie-in toys for...
July 02, 2022
At the beginning of Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (1944) Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), a successful...

June 2022

June 29, 2022
Essentially every self-described Christian group sees Jesus as its founder, either literally and historically or...
June 28, 2022
Outside of the modern United States this would seem a relatively open-and-shut question. Anyone baptized...
June 27, 2022
In 1921 at eleven years old, Yoshio Kodama was unhappily living with his sister and...
June 20, 2022
It’s a little late to eulogize Ray Liotta. He died three weeks ago.  And yet...
June 14, 2022
No better time than another energy crisis to revisit Tamara Jenkins’ Slums of Beverly Hills...
June 12, 2022
I’m 28 years old, which means that when I think teen movies, I think sex...

May 2022

May 31, 2022
1998’s The Faculty (dir. Robert Rodriguez) breaks the golden rule: never mention a better work...
May 20, 2022
I grew up with Office Space (1999). It’s with us even now, the giggles to...
May 16, 2022
R.W. Fassbinder’s Faustrecht der Freiheit (1975) is usually translated Fox and His Friends. That title...
May 06, 2022
It ain’t easy to watch movies when you’ve got a new puppy and there’s something...

April 2022

April 29, 2022
David O. Russell seems like the kind of guy who sees his life and work...
April 23, 2022
When a messiah disappears believers have a bit of a problem on their hands: this...
April 14, 2022
Forgive me, reader, for I have sinned—I’m reviewing another Kevin Smith movie, the one that,...
April 10, 2022
I’m in a peculiar position. I left New Jersey for college (went all the way...
April 04, 2022
A few weeks ago I chanced upon a video interview with a real, live Appalachian...

March 2022

March 28, 2022
What makes for a good TV movie? Can such a thing exist? On Rotten Tomatoes,...
March 21, 2022
  I’m 28 and I’m already nostalgic for the earliest years of my life. On...
March 13, 2022
Have you ever sat down to read a John Updike novel or John Cheever story...
March 05, 2022
A glance at the Rotten Tomatoes reviews of Robert Zemeckis’ Used Cars (1980) about sums...

February 2022

February 26, 2022
When Bo Burnham’s Netflix special, Inside (2021), lamented a year at home and a society...
February 19, 2022
2020’s I Blame Society leans heavily on the “I,” with producer-writer-director-lead actor, Gillian Wallace Horvat...

July 2021

July 27, 2021
  On September 12, 2016, I published a piece about Catholic Twitter’s most notorious catfish....

December 2020

December 01, 2020
When George H.W. Bush died, he was publicly lamented as “the last WASP president,” a...

November 2020

November 23, 2020
I find myself in an uneasy situation. I don't love either Donald Trump or Joe...
November 16, 2020
    “Give all, for all is yours” has long been the tagline of my...
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