Elizabeth Wood’s White Girl is not a movie for the prude or the faint of heart. You can tell that by looking at its poster, which features the white girl of the title having sex with her drug dealing boyfriend. (Spoiler alert!) There’s more where that came from (zing!), though, lots more, and much of it … Continue reading
So, this is pretty cool: I got to talk to Craig Robinson, one of my favorite comic actors, about his new movie, Chad Hartigan’s Morris from America, which makes great use of his funnyman qualities while giving him tons of room to maneuver on soulful planes. He isn’t even the star of the film. That would … Continue reading
It’s taken Fede Alvarez all of two movies to establish a name for himself as a filmmaker you’ll either love or loathe. On one hand, you have his 2013 Evil Dead reboot. On the other, you have Don’t Breathe, his latest, a taut, tense, delightfully nasty bit of business that has surprisingly interesting ideas about a certain … Continue reading
Yeah, remember how I said I didn’t like The Hollars? I didn’t like it so much that I wrote a whole separate piece about John Krasinski’s post-Office career for Movie Mezzanine, exploring what, exactly, he’s trying to achieve with his selection of projects and roles following the 2013 finale of his meal ticket. I don’t know if … Continue reading
I disliked John Krasinski’s The Hollars quite a bit. I did not like it at all, no sir, which makes him 0 for 2 with me in 2016. On Krasinski’s part, I’m not exactly sure where The Hollars is coming from; I’m not sure if this is his attempt at telling a personal story or if he’s … Continue reading
Pardon me for falling off the “share my work” train, and for flooding your email and your various social media feeds with all that stuff I haven’t shared for like a month. Also pardon me for recriminating myself instead of talking about Is That You?, the movie that this post will eventually link to by the … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 