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September 2025

September 07, 2025

Twisted Issues: Psychotronic Skateboards

I had the honor (and a lot of fun) chatting with Twisted Issues (1988) director...

August 2025

August 30, 2025

Not Quite All about All about Eve

It’s always a joy to finally watch a classic movie, one you’ve known about forever...

August 28, 2025

Death by Hanging: Playing with Justice

Sister Helen Prejean by way of Brecht and Kim Il-Sung, Death by Hanging (1968) is...

August 24, 2025

The Red Shoes: No Subtitle Needed

Subtitles do well with SEO, I’m told. So, there it is. But what can someone...

August 16, 2025

Weapons: A Pleasing Misfire

I am putting on my bullet-proof vest and requesting a firearm license. The night is...

August 11, 2025

Dementia: Silent Nightmare

I respect silent movies. But that’s about it. I’ve seen a couple dozen of them,...

August 08, 2025

An Autumn Afternoon: Last Call

We, or they, have canonized Yasujiro Ozu. If you’re 15 and tentatively adopting the moniker...

August 03, 2025

Fassbinder’s Jail Bait: You’ve Gotta Serve Somebody

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (I do not know the man) believed in love. He believed in...

July 2025

July 28, 2025

Beau Is Afraid; I Am Afraid

Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid (2023) is a sickness unto death. Or, to roll with...

July 25, 2025

Eddington: As We Are

Ari Aster has cracked the code. Whatever your politics or your feelings about our “moment,”...

July 19, 2025

Whity: Fassbinder’s Revenge

She’s a woman chopping up a bird, knife slicing flesh from flesh. The camera lingers,...

July 13, 2025

Shallow Grave: Tale as Old as Time

It’s a tale as old as time. People—sometimes crooks, sometimes friends, sometimes virtuous—come into possession...

July 06, 2025

Dude, Where’s My Car?

I was six, going on seven for most of 2000. The millennium is a mystery...

June 2025

June 28, 2025

Marie Antoinette: Let Them Eat Diamonds

Confession: the only Sofia Coppola movie I’d seen until last week was The Bling Ring...

June 22, 2025

If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?

For those not in the know, If Footmen Tire you, What Will Horses Do? (1971)...

June 16, 2025

Materialists: Manhattan Psycho Meet Cute

The way I see it, there are four ways to explain my reaction to Celine...

June 09, 2025

The Dark Backward: A Freakish Touch

With thanks to J.G. Michel, host of the Parallax Views podcast, I have been taking...

June 01, 2025

Final Destination Bloodlines: Uhh, It’s Fun

If Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) can bear an explication de texte, I am not the...

May 2025

May 26, 2025

Sinners: Whose Sins? Which Evil?

Late to the game as usual, I caught Ryan Coogler’s Sinners (2025) yesterday. It’s already...

May 17, 2025

Clown in a Cornfield: Not Enough Clowning Around

Based on a popular novel of the same name, director Eli Craig’s Clown in a...

May 11, 2025

Kids: Nothing’s the Matter with Kids Today

Becoming a young cinephile in the aughts and early 2010s meant seeking out Larry Clark’s...

May 04, 2025

Don’t Skip Skipped Parts?

Or maybe you should? It’s hard to say. At only 1.5k logs on Letterboxd, Tamra...

April 2025

April 27, 2025

The McPherson Tape: Do You Believe?

When I saw the first Paranormal Activity (2007), I knew it wasn’t real. But, at...

April 20, 2025

Drop: Date-Night Thrills

I hesitate to say the “movies are back” because I think anyone paying sufficient attention...

April 14, 2025

Volver: Light on the Melodrama

It feels bad to say, “it just didn’t connect with me.” Where there is technical...

April 09, 2025

Fight Club: The Middle Child of History

There’s really no way to “review” Fight Club (1999), a movie at this point so...

April 06, 2025

Naked: Life in Interesting Times

The idea goes that to say someone lives in “interesting times” is an insult or...

March 2025

March 30, 2025

Anora: Screwball Tragicomedy

A respectful goon. The kind of henchman who pulls out your chair at dinner. A...

March 23, 2025

Black Bag: A Limp Wind

Ever been in front of a fan on hot summer day, no AC in sight?...

March 17, 2025

The Substance (2024): All Style, No Substance

The Substance: Substance Wanted If someone whose brain were turned on eight hours a day...