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January 2023

January 21, 2023

Mr. Enders Goes to Brooklyn

Much to some Baby Boomers’ chagrin, our moment bears comparison with the tumultuous 1960s. Then,...

January 20, 2023

Love, Death, and Mr. Joyboy

The nigher the end, the wonkier the appetite. Whether it’s Jay and Silent Bob in...

January 19, 2023

Eden Undone

If you combined the stories of “Little Red Riding Hood” and Last House on the...

January 18, 2023

Sweat It Out and Dance About, the Whole Eternal Life

It was about 10 years ago that, driving a friend of mine to some late-night...

January 17, 2023

Seth Green, Off the Silver Screen

Very few of you, I assume, have heard of Tucker (2000-2001). No, I don’t mean...

January 09, 2023

The Whole Who Stole the SATs Angle

Sometime in the summer of 2009 I opened video on-demand as I played World of...

January 02, 2023

Rasslin’ Red, White, and Blue

Baseball is not America’s pastime. Sure, we may call it that. But this is misdirection...

November 2022

November 05, 2022

Elizabeth Taylor’s Roman Holiday

Identikit (1974, also called The Driver’s Seat) sets its terms of engagement from the very...

October 2022

October 22, 2022

The Total Stranger: Your Best Friend

It might be Sweeney Todd’s (2007) fault. When I hear about a barber-serial killer, I...

October 18, 2022

Pickleball! Pickleball! The Whole Dang Globe for Some Pickleball!

If you’re looking for a great documentary, look no further than Vice’s YouTube showcase of...

October 15, 2022

The World Hates Clowns; Clowns Hate the World

Shakes the Clown (1991) sounds great on paper. That’s why I put it on (well,...

October 08, 2022

How Bravo (Nearly) Ruined (Lots of) Horror Movies for Me (a Vulnerable Child)

When I was a kid, two pieces of media ruined a plethora of movie endings...

October 01, 2022

Everybody’s Got Theirs

I saw Kevin Smith’s Clerks III (2022) the first night it was in theaters. I...

September 2022

September 30, 2022

Share a Can of Wine with Me?

Mark Proksch is great. So great, in fact, that I, jealous man that I am,...

September 06, 2022

Fact, Fiction, or Just the Way Things Are?

1998’s The Last Broadcast is a movie made for me. I am a staunch New...

August 2022

August 26, 2022

Wake Me Up When I’m Rock Hudson, then Kill Me

Reincarnation always seemed worse than Hell to me. Never mind that I feel pretty bound...

August 19, 2022

Move Over Hell, VR Is (Allegedly) Here to Stay

I am the wrong person to review this movie. As long as I can remember,...

August 12, 2022

A Voyage to the Center of 2014

Do you remember when Gilbert Gottfried (rest in peace) was met with jeers of “too...

August 08, 2022

A Slow Death in Oslo

Joachim Trier’s Oslo, August 31st (2011) is the perfect film to watch as an early...

August 04, 2022

Hallmark’s Manic Pixie Dream Girl

Now I finally know why all the videos I had to watch in class in...

July 2022

July 27, 2022

Pleasure, I Guess

For all its motivating potential, or perhaps because of it, “freedom” is one of those...

July 22, 2022

Murdered on the Fourth of July

A disfigured corpse sits in a burnt-out helicopter somewhere in the Kuwaiti desert. The officer...

July 18, 2022

Tammy Does T-Rex

Tammy and the T-Rex (1994) is a B-movie done well and under immense pressure. Maybe...

July 17, 2022

Content Warning: Wild Wild West

As a five-year-old in 1999, I remember gawking at the Burger King tie-in toys for...

July 02, 2022

Words, Words, Words

At the beginning of Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (1944) Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), a successful...

June 2022

June 27, 2022

Only the Bad Sleep Well

In 1921 at eleven years old, Yoshio Kodama was unhappily living with his sister and...

June 20, 2022

If Ray Liotta’s Her Ex, Get Out of Dodge

It’s a little late to eulogize Ray Liotta. He died three weeks ago. And yet...

June 14, 2022

Slummin’ It Sitcom

No better time than another energy crisis to revisit Tamara Jenkins’ Slums of Beverly Hills...

June 12, 2022

When Teen Comedies Go Sad

I’m 28 years old, which means that when I think teen movies, I think sex...

May 2022

May 31, 2022

All Your Teachers Are Belong to Us

1998’s The Faculty (dir. Robert Rodriguez) breaks the golden rule: never mention a better work...