My love for Ann Rose Holmer’s extraordinary debut, The Fits, is well documented as of my report from Independent Film Festival Boston. So naturally, I took the opportunity to chat with her about the film as the greatest of honors. I won’t bore you with a lead-in. This is one of my favorite interviews that I’ve done … Continue reading
Everyone who hates The Conjuring should love The Conjuring 2; unlike the first film, the second doesn’t make a plot-based historical oopsie and suggest that maybe women killed during the Salem witch trials actually were witches. But if The Conjuring 2 is a victory for social criticism on paper, it’s a defeat for integrity in franchising in practice (such … Continue reading
In my first review for The Playlist (The Playlist!), I tackled a little doc called Unlocking the Cage that tells the story of Steven Wise, an animal protection lawyer who fought, and is still fighting, for the personhood of animals in the eyes of the U.S. judicial system. I liked it! It helps that it’s by Chris Hegedus … Continue reading
I probably sound pretty down on Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping in my review for Paste Magazine, but don’t let that deter you: I liked the film well enough, and it made me laugh heartily, which is about all that I was looking for. But the laughs are mostly pretty shallow outside of the film’s musical … Continue reading
It’s a quantifiable fact that I love the cinema of South Korea, thanks largely to the work of Park Chan-wook, whose magnum opus Oldboy remains one of my favorite movies of all time (of all time). But a decade and change after getting into Korean film, I have come to see Park as a gateway filmmaker, … Continue reading
Does Charles Ferguson’s Time to Choose count as pro-environmental propaganda? That’s a loaded label to sling at any film, especially a well-intentioned documentarian attempt at courting our sense of obligation to our planet. The Earth’s slow-burn ruination is one of humanity’s great shames, after all; we’re the ones gutting its depths, scarring its face, and … Continue reading
I probably don’t need to tell you at this point that Alice Through the Looking Glass is a pretty bad movie. I also don’t really want to tell you about it, because I’ve already dedicated enough ink to the film as it is, and even my 900 word take-down of the sequel to Tim Burton’s 2010 surprise … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 