I say this a lot, particularly whenever Brooklyn Nine-Nine returns to air after its mid-season break or its season ender, but: Brooklyn Nine-Nine is back, baby! Just like Gina Linetti! I failed, in my recap of “The Audit” for Paste Magazine, to properly salute Dirk Blocker for his perfect delivery of that exact line upon Gina’s return … Continue reading
Eyyyyy! I did a podcast again! I did the Over/Under podcast again, in fact! This time, Ryan and Oktay talked about From Dusk Till Dawn as the “over,” and Near Dark as the “under,” which is basically as tempting an invitation as one can offer to Crump, because Near Dark is terrific and From Dusk Till Dawn is much … Continue reading
All’s I can say is, I wish I liked Danièle Thompson’s portrait (ha!) of Émile Zola’s friendship with Paul Cézanne, Cézanne et Moi, better than I actually did. It looks great, as a movie about one of the great French masters of painting ought to, but it is, at the end of the day, just a frigging biopic that … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 