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April 2024

April 01, 2024

Picturing Bare Life

I’m a word person. This is, I think, a sound investment. The word is the...

February 2024

February 07, 2024

The Devil and Andy Sachs

I have become a man, undertaken a solemn duty impressed only upon film critics, fathers,...

January 2024

January 16, 2024

Yakuza Talk Business like Everybody Else

Life is filled with mundane, almost invisible negotiations. Some are external: who is going to...

October 2023

October 18, 2023

The Monsters Are Inside the Living Room

Voyeurism is one of those things. Most of us don’t peep through people’s windows or...

May 2023

May 01, 2023

Hate the Player, Love the Game

Dungeon and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) crystallizes just about everything about moviemaking in our...

April 2023

April 17, 2023

Now That’s What I Call a Horror Movie!

I caught some flak for trashing Barbarian (2022). I’m not surprised. I hated the pilot...

March 2023

March 23, 2023

Amateur Hour at the Indie Convent

Imagine if Kevin Smith made Dogma (1999) but in the flat, unaffected style of Clerks...

March 14, 2023

Love, Not Like in the Movies

The thesis of John Cassavetes’ Minnie and Moskowitz (1971) is that most people are a...

October 2022

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,...

November 2019

November 04, 2019

Dare We Hope That All Men Not Be Ideologues?

I am in the midst of writing a dissertation. This often (including in my case)...

January 2017

January 03, 2017

Scorsese’s Silence: A (No Spoilers) Review

Silence might be the most Catholic thing I have ever seen. To truly justify that,...