Review: Phantom Thread, 2017, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

I put down a thousand plus words about the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie, Phantom Thread, in my review for The Playlist; I put down a couple hundred more in a “best of the year” blurb I put together for the same site; I will be putting down even more hundreds of words for a piece I’m … Continue reading →

What Happened To Tommy Wiseau After ‘The Room’ Became A Legendary Bomb

Color me ignorant to the love people have for The Room. Sort of, I guess. Look, I get liking crappy movies; I have gone to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show performed live in theaters and participated to extents in the rituals and customs of its live exhibitions. But I don’t necessarily qualify The Rocky Horror Picture Show … Continue reading →

Best of Criterion’s New Releases, November 2017

Hey, hey! Another month, another monthly Criterion round-up for Paste Magazine. Disclosure: We couldn’t get a blurb together for Desert Hearts, which is too bad – it’s a pretty important landmark in queer cinema – but hey, we’re not perfect. (Still: Sorry!) We got blurbs for everything else, though, including my words on Terry Gilliam’s Jabberwocky, which … Continue reading →