“The stars are on fire and God is very busy.”
The 1970s are a hotbed for dramas of suburban unrest. The 1950s were too repressed and the 1960s were too unhinged, but in American cinema, the ’70s have come to […]
Category Archives: Film Reviews
How Many Wrongs Make a Right?
It is difficult to ascertain to what, exactly, the title of Quentin Dupieux’s latest film refers. Almost every moment of Wrong defies the logic of narrative filmmaking; every scene is, […]
“You’re all pants and no trousers!”
Though A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III is only his second film as writer/director, Roman Coppola has already established a pretty specific MO. Pendulous vacillation between emotional […]
“If you haven’t seen it, please do.”
“If you haven’t seen it, please do.” –Richard Dawkins, parenthetically discussing Monty Python’s the Meaning of Life in his book The God Delusion. If Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life […]
Caveat Emptor
Matthew McConaughey has been on something of a winning streak for the past year or so, with strong supporting work in Bernie, The Paperboy, and Magic Mike. Apparently deciding all […]
Josh Radnor’s Affectionate Footnote
Walking across a college campus is an evocative image, conjuring halcyon days of unfettered didactic discourse and effortlessly lateral social expansion. I felt that way before I had been to […]
“Keep your eyes open and your thoughts pure.”
As far as mainstream sex symbols go, few are willing to plumb the depths of depravity as fully and as frequently as Asia Argento. This is significant not only in […]
Animals and Other Roommates
Early on in Michael Mohan’s keenly observed film — in fact, in the first shot — we see our protagonist Sarah hunched over a table in the bookstore she manages, […]
“You either steal with a gun or a pen.”
Authorship in documentary filmmaking can be a tricky subject. It’s partly to do with the propriety of intellectual material; primarily, though, the ideal audience is willing and able to ascribe […]
A Decade and a Half of Crazy Summers
Whenever a film depicts the lives of fictitious individuals against a noteworthy historical backdrop, the question must be raised: do the filmmakers use their characters to humanize an otherwise emotionally […]
Considering Film 