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November 2018

November 26, 2018

I review Michelle Tea’s “Against Memoir”

at The Week: Any book titled Against Memoir will inevitably be a descent into the...

November 19, 2018

Spiritual Friendship and Self-Abasing Love in a New Wilde Biopic

which I review for America magazine: There is a moment toward the beginning of Rupert...

November 14, 2018

Plots Fall, Everyone Dies: Revisiting “Harry Potter” for No Real Reason

Well, the reason is my whole time-travel rosary thing, which I'm still doing (and will...

November 12, 2018

War of the “We Are the World”s: I read SPACE OPERA

You will know if you want to read Catherynne Valente's new novel, Space Opera, as...

November 11, 2018

I Know My Way Is Hard and Steep: The music of the Radiant Obscurity Collective

A little while ago a Marist seminarian emailed me about his "sacred prog band," the...

November 01, 2018

Death of an Edgelord: I review a new biopic of the founder of Norwegian death metal

demons are made of mouths: Lords of Chaos, a new biopic of the late founder...

October 2018

October 31, 2018

From “The Leopard” to “Sword of Honour,” last part

[sorry, removed as I work on this for publication]

October 31, 2018

My Ideal Halloween Playlist

I have thought deeply about this question. Also, feel free to be amused by how...

October 30, 2018

From “The Leopard” to “Sword of Honour,” part three

[my apologies, taken down as I work on it for publication]

October 29, 2018

From “The Leopard” to “Sword of Honour” part two: White Guard & The Radetzky March

[my apologies, taken down as I work on it for publication]

October 26, 2018

From “The Leopard” to “Sword of Honour”: An essay in descents

[my apologies, I've removed this post as I work on it for publication]

October 21, 2018

God in Silence, God in Screams: Short movie reviews (with a theme!)

Prince of Egypt: A haunting cartoon retelling of the Exodus which pulls few punches. The...

October 20, 2018

Three Fictional Retellings of Violent Christian History

Two of them are good. One of them is not good! ...Plus bonus Pope Emeritus...

October 18, 2018

“I’LL SELF-CARE WHEN I SELF-DIE” And Other Small Brilliances of “BoJack Horseman”

In which St Francis de Sales watches season 5 of the depressed-horse show and exclaims,...

October 12, 2018

Little Pig, Little Pig, Come and Let Me In: I review a stellar Chilean horror film with roots in the country’s past

for America magazine: And so begins a haunting stop-motion animation film, like a fairy tale...

October 10, 2018

“The Famous Weegee, Up Close and Personal”: I review a new biography

for America magazine: The pony-photos story encapsulates several of the qualities that made Weegee the...

October 10, 2018

Sleuthing Is the Best Therapy: Dorothy Gilman, “The Tightrope Walker”

A woman who's just in the very first stages of recovery from an awful early...

October 10, 2018

The Killer Inside Me: Short reviews from the AFI Spooky Movie Fest

I'm saving the best film I saw at the fest for a full review, in...

October 08, 2018

Dirty Old Town: Short movie reviews

C.H.U.D.: In Glorious Trash-O-Vision! This 1984 classic of urban abandonment, about "Cannibalistic Human Underground Dwellers,"...

September 2018

September 13, 2018

I Watch “The Nun”

and discover a poignant fear inside the shell of what is, imo, a pretty mediocre...

August 2018

August 31, 2018

Kill My Friend: Three short movie reviews

Ms. 45: Abel "The Addiction" Ferrara's 1981 rape-revenge film, starring Zoe Lund as the mute...

August 27, 2018

And All Her Paths Are Peace: Short movie reviews

A real variety pack today. Byzantium: Neil Jordan vampire flick about two women, whose relationship...

August 20, 2018

My Top Nine Underrated Vampire Movies

Fang flicks for fun chicks. I did a very short (~12 mins) interview with Doxacast,...

August 06, 2018

Doxacast Annotated: My Top Ten Underrated Horror Films

I spoke with Doxacast, a Christian sf/fantasy podcast (tied to Doxacon, a Christian sf/fantasy convention,...

July 2018

July 22, 2018

A Nuclear Eden: Return to Angela Carter’s “Heroes & Villains”

Man, remember how I said Anna Karenina was the most heterosexual novel I'd ever read?...

July 17, 2018

I Review “Sorry to Bother You”

for America magazine: If I had to sell you “Sorry to Bother You,” the corporate...

July 13, 2018

Pride and Prejudice: Short movie reviews

...Sorry for the title. Anyway, since I am backward in all things, I waited until...

July 13, 2018

Hazard and Dance: Revisiting Two Angela Carter Novels

Back in high school I'm not sure I read any author as obsessively as I...

July 08, 2018

Is Recovery Anti-Literary? I review the new Leslie Jamison memoir/literary analysis

for AmCon: When Leslie Jamison realized she had to quit drinking, she was also giving...

June 2018

June 29, 2018

Survival Is the Least of My Desires: Short movie reviews

(Title via Dorothy Allison.) Carriers: How long can you sustain pre-apocalyptic morals in a post-apocalyptic...