You Didn’t See Chi-Raq? That’s Why #OscarsSoWhite
An article you’ll stop reading well before I get to my review of Chi-Raq, a film which is worth watching.
In Which I Return To The Return of The Living Dead
Send more paramedics.
Watch Room & Go Out of Your Mind
It will make you cry, but not with anger. These are the tears of yearning and growth.
Tangerine Dream Meets Tangerine Reality
Tangerine is a Tom Waits song or a Bukowski novel. It is a tale that makes you feel and care and know subjects normally considered too marginal for your attention.
The Look of Silence is Indelible and Deafening
Scrape the cholesterol from the hardened arteries of cinema, to make its heart — and yours — beat with frightening vigor.
True Grit Vs. True Grit Vs. True Grit
An unusual case study of two movies based on the same book, each trying to be faithful in its own way.
Medium Cool Will Not Be Televised
Be here now
2015: The Year In Movies In Haiku
For both the poetically minded and the short attention spanned among you.
Anomalisa Underwhelms
Stop-motion puppets bring Charlie Kaufman’s latest story of misery to depressing life.
Marnie, In Which Hitchcock Rapes His Audience
Late period Hitchcock is not for the weak of heart.
The Revenant Wants You Dead
Go see The Revenant with your dead son.
Lost in the Storm with The Hateful Eight
I think you should watch it on TV, late one drunken Saturday, and tell me what you think.
I See Movies, 2015 Edition
In which I list every movie I watched during 2015, because who doesn’t love a good list?
The Hateful Eight, Tarantino’s 70mm Western, Is A Real Movie
Neither cartoon nor meta-commentary on itself, The Hateful Eight is something crazier still: a good movie.