“Okay, Teddy, let’s not evaluate rashly here, all right? It’s a misunderstanding. We’re not saying pilsners are boring. We’re saying that we are too boring to appreciate them properly, is what I’m going with.” Continue reading
Posted in November 2019 …
“‘Knives Out’ Knows Only One Truth: The Rich Have No Loyalty”
Turkey’s out, will’s out, knives out. Continue reading
“‘Frozen 2’s’ Themes Become Darker Even as the Kid Gloves Stay On”
Hell yeah, a grown-ass man beating up on the adorable kids film, because my HEART is COLD as ICE. Continue reading
“Trey Edward Shults on Making ‘Waves'”
In which Trey and Andy go for the turkey and talk about Trey’s third movie. Never let it be said that critics don’t have their favorites. Continue reading
“Corporations Triumph Over Cars in Ford v Ferrari”
Vroom vroom zoom zoom beep beep screech crash bang boom man emotions vroooooom manly slap fight zip zip zap Continue reading
“Peanut Butter and Honey: Shia LaBeouf’s Tonic for Toxic Masculinity”
My editor came up with a really good title for this piece, and I’m very mad I didn’t figure it out for myself first. At least the piece itself isn’t too bad! Continue reading
“The 5 Best Beer Bars in Nashville, TN”
Oh, come on, you didn’t think I’d go to a bunch of breweries and not ALSO go to a bunch of bars, too? You don’t know me at all, do you. Continue reading
“The 5 Best Breweries in Nashville, TN”
It’s called Music City, but as a secondary honorific, Good Beer City is accurate. It just doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as nicely. Continue reading
“‘Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police’ Plays The Hits”
A new Juliana Hatfield album, following the other new Juliana Hatfield album, except *this* Juliana Hatfield album is The Police. Continue reading
“The 100 Best Movies Of The 2010s”
100 movies. How many have you seen? None? A few? Enough? Because let me tell you, that’s a whole lot of movies. Continue reading
“Camgirl Memoirist Isa Mazzei Wants to Take the Shame Out of Sex Work”
Andy dips his toes into the world of sex work, and also books, the former a subject of new, genuine interest, the latter a constant struggle in time management, which is kinda funny because…Andy is a writer. Continue reading
“In Charlie’s Angels the Cast Is Having More Fun than You Will”
This is a movie, but also the epitome of a blockbusting year spent making overdetermined, obnoxious , totally disingenuous proclamations of feminine heroism. Continue reading
“5 New Releases We Love: FKA Twigs Transfigures, Gang Starr Throws It Back, And More”
Last week, for The A.V. Club‘s weekly A-Sides feature, I had the good luck of writing about the new FKA twigs album, Magdalene, essentially her way of working through her breakup with Robert Pattinson, which I know little about*, other than it resulted in a really great album by an incredibly talented artist. I also know that I’m … Continue reading
“Why the Trope of the Dad Bod is Detrimental to Dads”
I found the above image of Jason Momoa, one of my absolute favorite human beings on the planet*, posted on an article at Today, and I used it for obvious reasons in my post here: Jason Momoa is a golden god Jason Momoa got flack for having a dad bod, which to me is bananas Dudes, … Continue reading
“In Synonyms, the Search for Identity Does Not Lead to the Same Destination as the Search for Happiness”
Quick, find a word that means something similar to “this is a real gosh darn good movie.” Continue reading
“What Imelda Marcos Can Teach Us About The Fake News Generation”
A movie that proves there is no justice in this world when all the wealth is in the hands of the unjust, so thank heavens for mass food poisoning. Continue reading
“Bishop Briggs’ CHAMPION Pulls Punches and Breaks Hearts”
In which Andy makes the pickiest of nits about an otherwise rock solid album about how much it sucks to have your heart broken when you’re the big brain type and you know that people leave but memories remain. Continue reading
“The Best Horror Movies of the 2010s”
The decade ain’t over ’til the ball drops, but eh, close enough in Internet years; let’s all get the pants scared off our persons. Continue reading
“Best of Criterion’s New Releases, October 2019”
All I want is to talk about Godzilla, but I’ll have to just settle for talking about Josef von Sternberg instead, even though his movies do not have radioactive thunder lizards in them. Continue reading
“The Peculiar Horrors of New England”
New England is indeed a peculiar place, but your place would be peculiar, too, if it was built on some of the oldest bones buried in this country we call the United States of the Americas. Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 