Today’s Daily Dose for Paste Magazine, brought to you by: Me! Okay, strictly speaking it’s brought to you by Amo Amo, a new band from Los Angeles enjoying the producorial talents of one Jim James, but I wrote a couple hundred words about the song. That ain’t nothing. It’s a good song, too, else I wouldn’t … Continue reading
I’m betting you don’t need me to explain what this one’s all about, but all the same: I ranked every movie starring or featuring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Boom. That happened. What’s especially cool about this list, apart from the fact that it is 100% scientifically factual and if you disagree with me you are wrong*, is that … Continue reading
July has been a wasteland of a month for films by women. Not that there aren’t films by women out there in theaters for you to watch, or at home, and it’s not that those movies are bad or anything; it’s just that compared to other months, finding those movies has proven a Herculean task, and that’s … Continue reading
Revisiting my audio recording of the interview I conducted with Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal at this year’s Independent Film Festival Boston, I finally figured out what I would have really liked to have said about the film at the time but didn’t: Racism’s really hard to talk about, even couched in a piece of art like Blindspotting. It’s … Continue reading
I never thought Unfriended would work as a concept. You can base an episode of Modern Family around a Skype call; you can’t make a horror movie using the same aesthetic. Except you can! Turns out that what you actually can’t do is make a sequel to that movie, at least not if you’re going to do that … Continue reading
Castle Rock is maybe the single best embodiment of the problems I have reviewing TV: After just a few episodes, I’m not sure where it’s going, and I’m not sure how to review something like that. Maybe that’s not the point when you’re reviewing TV. Maybe just learn to review the TV you have. Regardless, Castle … Continue reading
If you thought The First Murder was good, and if you liked The Second Murder, too, wait until you get a load of The Third Murder! Okay: Sorry. I’ve already made this joke on Twitter. It wasn’t funny then (lies! It was hilarious), and it isn’t funny now (see last parenthetical, asshole). But I couldn’t help myself. Talking about … Continue reading
Last April (the last day of last April, in fact), I sat down with Lauren Greenfield, documentarian, to talk about her new movie, Generation Wealth, which ran at this year’s run of Independent Film Festival Boston. If you’ve seen her previous film, The Queen of Versailles, you have a decent idea of what Generation Wealth is about; it’s not … Continue reading
Friends! I forgot to share this…forever ago, when I went on the Spoilerpiece Theater podcast with my good buddies David Riedel and Kristofer Jenson, and by “forever ago” I mean like two weeks ago (which is forever in Internet time). Anyways: We talked, hucking spoilers all over the place of course, about Nancy (which I wrote about … Continue reading
“Hey,” says the movie, “let’s all go back in time to our adolescence, when our skin resembled pizza bathed in grease and battered with a meat hammer, and everything we liked actually in retrospect really, really sucks, and social interaction felt as risky as giving yourself a half dozen paper cuts and sticking your limbs … Continue reading
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it, uh, right here for a second time: I’m probably going to keep going back to Sorry to Bother You for the rest of the year and revisiting my feelings and interpretations of it. Having seen it but once, and having followed up that viewing by re-watching Repo Man and Tank Girl, … Continue reading
Summer’s a time to brighten up, warm up, and feel good, so if you’re in the mood to feel bad, your options are limited. You could watch The Handmaid’s Tale, which will force you to feel bad and also just naturally make you feel bad with its badness; you could also skip that and watch the … Continue reading
About me: I’ll happily wring two pieces out of one thing if I can, and you can’t make me feel ashamed about it, no sirree. That’s my little way of introducing my piece, for The ARTery, about Putting On Airs, the solo debut album from the great Erin Rae, who you may recall I interviewed for Paste Magazine … Continue reading
This piece hit the web so long ago that I forgot to share it (“so long ago,” of course, means “sometime in early June”). But hey! I remembered! So here it is, my musings on “In Between,” a live EP from local singer-songwriter Maxwell Bailey, which he recorded in an Airbnb all in one shot. … Continue reading
…huh! Seems we missed out on our Criterion piece last May! How ’bout that. (Hey, don’t look at me. I just assemble the doc. And also write my blurbs. Such is life.) Good news is, the June slate rocked, as it usually does, and we managed to get the piece on Paste Magazine just under the wire; … Continue reading
Fourth verse, same as the first, a little bit better, but it couldn’t be worse. Okay, okay. Fine. I’ll stop ragging on The Purge, the first movie in the Purge franchise, and start praising The First Purge, the fourth movie in the Purge franchise, even though The First Purge lags behind The Purge: Anarchy and The Purge: Election Year. Parts of The First Purge … Continue reading
I’m not sure how I’m going to feel celebrating the 4th of July this year. I could celebrate the spirit of the country as I’d like it to be; I could mourn it, or rage against it, what it actually is. But you don’t have to! You, you, you’re lucky, you can beat the heat … Continue reading
Y’know: If I’m writing for a series titled “The Daily Dose,” it probably makes sense to share on the day of the dose, right? Yikes. What a doink I am. Anyways, Cornelia Murr writes pretty darn good music, so I wrote about the latest single from her upcoming debut album, Lake Tear of the Clouds, for Paste Magazine‘s … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 