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April 2026

April 02, 2026

Project Hail Mary: Kids’ Movie?

My journey with Project Hail Mary (2026) began when a student asked if we could...

March 2026

March 29, 2026

Happiness: Normal Monsters, Monsters Normal

Todd Solondz’ Happiness (1998) has a reputation. It’s bleak. It’s iconoclastic. It’s perverted. It’s simply...

March 20, 2026

Undertone: Scary, Scary Sound

I finally got back to the theater this week and caught undertone (2025), a Canadian...

March 15, 2026

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Quiet Scorsese

Forgive the brevity of this one—my friend and podcast co-host Sam has been visiting for...

March 08, 2026

Killer of Sheep: Realism Amidst the Rubble

I’m a little late for Black History Month, but it’s never a bad time to...

February 2026

February 24, 2026

La Jetée: Montage, Past and Future

What more can be said of Chris Marker’s groundbreaking “photo-novel,” La Jetée (1962)? Its subject...

February 21, 2026

All I Desire: Midwestern Sirk

Douglas Sirk has been called both the king of the 50s “women’s weepies” and a...

February 15, 2026

The Adjuster: Superhero for the End of History

The poster for Atom Egoyan’s The Adjuster (1991) does and does not suggest pulpiness. Elias...

February 07, 2026

eXistenZ: Another Day in 2026

Another week, another Cronenberg. This time we have his Y2K dive into the wonderful world...

January 2026

January 26, 2026

Atlantic City: The French on the Shore

I am from New Jersey. This is no secret. I love seeking out movies by...

January 26, 2026

Maps to the Stars: Hollywood Babylon

David Cronenberg is a treasure. I’m not breaking any new ground there, but I had...

January 26, 2026

Family Viewing: Grain and Fuzz

If you’ve seen an Atom Egoyan movie, you know he likes to watch. Or, better...

January 04, 2026

54: Let the Good Times Roll

A new year, an older movie—1998’s 54, the tale of one 19-year-old's whirlwind experience at...

December 2025

December 31, 2025

In the Mood for Love: Not in the Mood

Well, let me sin. Not boldly but of necessity. Of course, the sin is not,...

December 24, 2025

Yi Yi: Simply Having a Melancholic Christmas Time

Confiteor: Edward Yang’s Yi Yi (2000) stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the great canon of films I’ve...

December 20, 2025

The Bishop’s Wife: Cary Does Christmas

Along with the half the Eastern Seaboard, I’ve been incredibly sick the last week or...

December 14, 2025

Poison: Nascent Todd Haynes

I love Todd Haynes, or at least his films. He and I share a love...

December 07, 2025

Crossfire: Works Progress Cinema

Busy week and brief write-up. Over on the Criterion Channel, I glimpsed a Robert Mitchum...

November 2025

November 28, 2025

Network: Install with Ease

On Warren Zevon’s 1989 dystopian concept album Transverse City, there is a song called “Networking.”...

November 22, 2025

Miracles: Jackie Chan Does Capra

I’m a bit rundown this week/weekend, so I’ll leave you with a recommendation rather than...

November 17, 2025

Tart: Sweeter than Expected

I’d like to defend a film you’ve likely not heard of. 2001’s Tart comes in...

November 08, 2025

The Social Network: Meta-Commentary

2010 was a lonely year to be a technophobe, at least in my then-tinier bubble....

November 02, 2025

Jaws: Ad Fontes

It all started with Jaws (1975). Through decades of changes—digital recording, CGI, the whole gamut—the...

October 2025

October 26, 2025

The Innocents: Lambs to the Slaughter

The Innocents (1961) has sat on my watchlist, stealing glances and looking disappointed, for years....

October 19, 2025

I Walked with a Zombie: Guilt in the Antilles

“Put the planter on a horse, and he’ll ride to his own death.” So says...

October 13, 2025

Altered States: Nutshell 20th Century

I’ve taken the Ken Russell plunge. First, The Devils (1971), the writer-director’s valediction to Catholicism,...

October 04, 2025

One Battle After Another After Another

I’m embarrassed to say I’ve not read an entire Thomas Pynchon book. Friends tell me...

September 2025

September 28, 2025

Bad Trip: Eric André’s Odyssey

I’ve followed Eric André for a decade now, though apparently not closely enough. In 2021,...

September 24, 2025

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) is a film beyond like or dislike, an...

September 13, 2025

3 Women: Dream of Personhood

In The Day of the Locust (1939), Nathanael West comments that the scraggly crowds of...