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September 2023

September 14, 2023

When You Hear the Attack Warning: Short movie notes

Horror and the 1970s (but I repeat myself! badum-tish). A Dark Song: Grueling, unexpected Irish...

August 2023

August 10, 2023

The Sun Never Sets on Coca-Cola: Four short movie notes

In chronological order of when they were released. The Scarlet Empress Josef von Sternberg directs...

October 2022

October 28, 2022

Leave Your Body at the Door: Halloween Playlist 2022

Previous years here, here, here, here! Lol so many of these links are broken. MEMENTO...

July 2022

July 11, 2022

“Do You Think It’s Okay If I Pretend I’m a Zombie?”: Short movie notes

These really are short, to make room for a love letter to Times Square at...

March 2022

March 05, 2022

“Have You Ever Heard of Insect Politics?”: Short film reviews

Mostly horror. "The Tragedy of Macbeth": Dang this was good. Expressionist, tilting the story far...

February 2022

February 28, 2022

Two New Reviews: A Southern Gothic Novel About Innocence Sought; Documentary by a Punk Icon’s Daughter

I read Glenn Arbery's The Boundaries of Eden: There’s a kind of American story in...

December 2020

December 08, 2020

Parting Glances: I watch “Summer of ’85”

Okay, I will first say that I developed a Theory about this movie, a theory...

July 2020

July 14, 2020

“All the Colors Above Them”: Gloria Miklowitz’s “War Between the Classes”

I'm at We Are the Mutants, bowing and curtsying: Assign teenagers to different socioeconomic classes...

May 2020

May 10, 2020

Pure Imagination and Other Horrors: Short movie reviews

Paperhouse: Good old-fashioned nightmare fuel! This is an emotionally-rich story of an unhappy eleven-year-old girl...

April 2020

April 01, 2020

“For All the Dead Heroes”: My tribute to Lizzie Borden’s “Born in Flames”

is up at We Are the Mutants: In 1983, Lizzie Borden attacked the World Trade...

March 2020

March 22, 2020

If I Ran the Criterion Collection

I've been thinking about doing this post for a while, and these days of shelter-in-place...

March 21, 2020

Cabin Fever: A bunch of short movie notes

Sea Fever: Basically an Irish version of Underwater--trapped people encounter an unexplained underwater phenomenon which...

January 2020

January 21, 2020

Little Bunker Under the Prairie: My tribute to “Population: 1”

at We Are the Mutants: “It is my dubious privilege to confirm the fact that...

October 2019

October 05, 2019

I’ll Always Love a Guilty Party

So I just finished two slender novels released only a year apart, which read like...

September 2019

September 24, 2019

I Need You Like Tab Needs Rum

I watched Desperately Seeking Susan, the 1985... is it a woman's picture????... in which bored...

June 2019

June 25, 2019

The Unified Team: Three short movie reviews

No theme. Rafiki: This is two well-worn storylines--Romeo & Juliet plus coming out amid religious...

March 2019

March 28, 2019

Stranger with My Face: I watch “Us”

Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning directorial debut, 2017’s “Get Out,” was as much an exploration of the...

January 2019

January 10, 2019

I Shall Do Thee Mischief in The Anvil: I watch “Cruising”

Cruising, the 1980 sleaze thriller where Al Pacino goes undercover in the New York leather/s&m...

October 2018

October 31, 2018

My Ideal Halloween Playlist

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

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,"...

August 2018

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...

May 2018

May 06, 2018

You Can’t Always Get What You Want: Three Films About the Aftermath of the Sixties

I recently watched The Big Chill and Return of the Secaucus 7 one after the...

December 2017

December 09, 2017

Death by Stereo: Movie notes

Starting with the low point, I'm afraid. Spinning into Butter is an extremely '90s tale...

November 2017

November 12, 2017

You Cannot Serve Both Audrey and Audrey II

Halloween season means spooky movie revivals! AFI showed a whole mess of films by the...

October 2017

October 26, 2017

A Show on the Side of Babylon Trying to Front Like It’s Down with Mount Zion

YES here I am with MORE about that noir procedural/Reagan tribute fanvid, that glorious neon...

August 2017

August 14, 2017

Cops and Bloggers: Two crime shows

I'm watching Flashpoint, a Canadian show about a sort of SWAT alternative team. They do...

July 2017

July 12, 2017

So Far from God, So Close to “Miami Vice”

So for reasons best known to my confessor, I decided to watch the premiere of...

July 05, 2017

Cat Fight This Feeling: I watch GLOW

So Netflix made a show about women's wrestling in the 1980s and I am hard-pressed...

July 05, 2017

Between the Promise and the Payoff Falls the Shadow: Movie and music reviews

It Comes at Night: This film is incredibly effective at creating tension and dread, and...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

What If We Remade “I Confess”… But Sleazy?: And more movie notes

Wow, guys, this is a lot. Strap in. A Cottage on Dartmoor: British silent revenge...