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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...

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...
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