Well, I reckon that since I talked to Armando Iannucci about his new film, it’s only proper that I review it, too. So I did. It’s not my first time at the Iannucci rodeo, after all, so if I’m going to go in on The Death of Stalin, I’m going to go all-in. (Or something.) I’ll say … Continue reading
Talk about timely (especially after last month’s very delayed publication of this column)! My latest spotlight on films by women is available for stuffing into your eyeballs over at Paste Magazine, featuring the mixed-bag A Wrinkle in Time (decent, not great, but definitely an influencer); the very good Oh Lucy!, a Japanese dramedy starring Shinobu Terajima, featuring Josh … Continue reading
There’s probably a rule in journalism that one should not assign agency to their subjects, as in: I bet the issues I have with Michael Tully’s Don’t Leave Home boil down to confidence. I mean, that might be true, for all I know; the parts of the film that threw me out of the narrative feel like the … Continue reading
I wonder, honestly, if I might have liked Robert S. Bader’s Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes more if I knew less about Muhammad Ali. I certainly didn’t know that much about Dick Cavett walking into it, just enough to be conversational, so I guess that’s a plus in the film’s favor; all the … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 