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“The Vandoliers Rock the Intersection of Country and Punk”
12 tracks on the fine art of putting a ten gallon hat on a mohawk. Continue reading
Andy’s Best Things, 2019 Edition
The best movies, the best albums, the best horror, and the best catty side-swipes at whatever’s annoying me at the time of this writing. Happy New Year! Continue reading
“The Best Horror Movies of 2019”
Out with the old, in with the new, but first you’d better watch these ten movies and maybe scare the daylights out of yourself. Continue reading
“The 10 Best Horror Movies of 2019 (So Far)”
And it took a good bit of legwork to actually get to ten, let me tell you! Continue reading
“One Of The Biggest Horror Movie Scares Of The Year Happens During A Game Of ‘Never Have I Ever'”
Good, patiently executed scares are a gift from the movie gods, and so’re opportunities to hash it out with the people responsible for putting those scares together. Continue reading
Sundance 2022: Review Round-Up
Coming in just in time at (checks notes) a month and change since the festival wrapped. Continue reading
Sundance 2021: Coverage Roundup Extravaganza
So, I covered Sundance this year, from the comfort and safety of my couch, often wearing my PJs, frequently drinking a beer of my choosing from our fridge. In the loosest sense possible, I’ve “covered” Sundance before; here and there, I’ve provided spot reviews for movies that, i their release years, turned out to be … Continue reading
“‘The Sonata’ Hits One Great Note and Misplays the Rest”
Andy had hopes for this movie, but it turns out it’s so not-a good. Continue reading
“‘The Day Shall Come’ And The Myth Of The Black Nationalist Terrorist”
The day shall come! In fact, it already came! It’s done. It’s gone. You missed it. What the hell, why weren’t you paying attention for the day. Continue reading
“The Cruelty Of Indifference”
I nearly wrote my fingers to death typing the title of this movie for this article, so I damn well expect your clicks in exchange for my writerly suffering. Continue reading
Review: Black Mother, 2019, dir. Khalik Allah
A free association (sort of) visual essay documentary film about Jamaica in 2019, Jamaica in the 1800s, and how the latter has shaped the former into a land of beautiful contradictions. Continue reading
“Films by Women: Five Movies to Watch in January”
Touch me not as the corpses tan, while remembering all these small moments at Rust Creek with Mike and Nicky. (Translation: Here are some movies by women available in January.) Continue reading
Andy’s Best Things, 2018 Edition
Hi. I’m late writing this up. I had other plans for ringing in 2019. Honestly, snowboarding and beer are only part of it. If I think about it for a second, I don’t really have a lot to say about 2018; I’m sans a unifying statement to reconcile all of the pop culture I digested … Continue reading
“Best of Criterion’s New Releases, September 2018”
Question: Does anyone care if Paste‘s Criterion round-ups publish the month after they’re intended for? This used to bother me just on grounds of professional, writerly pride, but I’m not sure anymore if it’s worth me being bothered by; by the time these pieces land, every release from the preceding month is commercially available, which feels … Continue reading
Andy’s Best Things, 2018 Halftime Edition
June has arrived, and also it’s about to end, the month-long worldwide celebrations of my birthday winding down* as I settle into my new age-number and look ahead to the rest of the year**. Thus, this, my Best Things halftime report, expanded once more from merely a ranking of film and TV to include music, … Continue reading
Dear Lew: 03/20/2017
Lew, You wrote back. I can’t believe you wrote me back. I’m sure anyone else peering in on our correspondences will think the five month gap between my last missive and your response is somewhat strange, but I don’t care; I’m just grateful you thought enough of me to say anything at all. Pardon me … Continue reading
Review: Anatahan, 1953, dir. Josef von Sternberg
There are two primary reasons to see Josef von Sternberg’s <i>Anatahan</i>. The first is that it’s a rarity, the final film in Sternberg’s solo directing career before co-directing <i>Jet Pilot</i> in 1957 with Fred Fleck. <i>Anatahan</i> is a picture obscured by the passage of time and by its own financial failure, a box office stumble … Continue reading
Review: Time to Choose, 2016, dir. Charles Ferguson
Does Charles Ferguson’s Time to Choose count as pro-environmental propaganda? That’s a loaded label to sling at any film, especially a well-intentioned documentarian attempt at courting our sense of obligation to our planet. The Earth’s slow-burn ruination is one of humanity’s great shames, after all; we’re the ones gutting its depths, scarring its face, and … Continue reading
TV Review: Game of Thrones, 6.05, “The Door”
(Author’s note: The title reads “review.” This is obviously not a review of the episode, which by all measures I think is very strong up until its big, last-minute reveal. It is a breakdown of that last-minute reveal only, because the moment and the response to that moment have driven me to make my own … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 