Not Just Movies

Here's a piece I wrote back in June on the super-smash team of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, whose satiric chops are overstated but ...

I had some reservations about aspects of Gina Prince-Bythewood's critique of celebrity itself, but overall Beyond the Lights  is a gorge...

Warning: contains spoilers Give David Fincher some credit: he may have cemented his name as the man who converts grim bestsellers into s...

Filled with Nic Roeg-esque montages and a finale that repurposes Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life as some sort of metaphysical chase sequ...

One of two pieces I wrote recently about John Cassavetes' not-quite-swan song, his masterpiece Love Streams . An excerpt: The film’s ...

Here's a few months worth of Blu-Ray reviews from Slant and Movie Mezzanine. Movie Mezzanine Sleepaway Camp (Scream Factory) Roller...

By the same token, it’s also a fitting summary of everything that hinders the film’s aspirations to a singular vision. The highly chromat...