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July 2023

July 05, 2023

Foolish Brutes and Brutish Fools

After absorbing Federico Fellini’s La Strada (1954) I didn’t say much for a few hours....

June 2023

June 16, 2023

The Found Footage Curse

Found footage movies face a fundamental problem: editing. For a film to be “found” its...

May 2023

May 15, 2023

What’s Plot Go to Do with It?

Help me find the golden mean. One end, draped in the ole stars and stripes...

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 11, 2023

Please Stop Trying to Make “Smart” Horror Movies. Please, God. Please

You can rip his pair of striped pants off and slash away his mustache, but...

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...

February 2023

February 11, 2023

How to Talk to Aliens at Punk Afterparties

Adapted from a Neil Gaiman short story, the John Cameron Mitchell-directed How to Talk to...

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,...

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...

August 2022

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...

May 2022

May 20, 2022

Temporary Insanity

I grew up with Office Space (1999). It’s with us even now, the giggles to...

April 2022

April 29, 2022

Disaster, I Flirt with Thee

David O. Russell seems like the kind of guy who sees his life and work...

April 14, 2022

Straight Eye for the Queer Gal for the Straight Guy

Forgive me, reader, for I have sinned—I’m reviewing another Kevin Smith movie, the one that,...

February 2022

February 26, 2022

Body-Swap Slasher Fails to Freak

When Bo Burnham’s Netflix special, Inside (2021), lamented a year at home and a society...

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)...