“Ease Your COVID Anxiety with Natalie Morales’ Charming Slice of Screenlife, ‘Language Lessons'”

Here’s a lesson in filmmaking language: It’s hard to make a screenlife movie interesting. But this one is! Continue reading →

“Another Clunky, Graceless COVID Movie, ‘Life Upside Down’ Squanders Its Stir-Crazy Cast”

“Now, this is a story all about how
My life got flipped-turned upside down
By COVID. No, I’m not going to try and
Continue this ridiculous Fresh Prince gag.” Continue reading →

“Lilly Hiatt’s Style Takes a Hushed Turn on ‘Lately'”

The Lilly Hiatt reviewer has logged on. Continue reading →

Go to Film School With Criterion!

Are you a fan of the Criterion Collection? Have you ever read even mere segments of David Bordwell’s and Kristin Thompson’s exhaustively researched, massively elucidating and informative text, Film Art: An Introduction? No matter what your answers are to either of these questions, the only thing that truly matters is whether or not you have a … Continue reading →

Book Review: Making Movies, 1996, Sidney Lumet (Vintage Books)

A book review? In a movie blog? Movies represent one of my biggest passions and favorite pastimes, but you may be surprised to learn that, as an English major, I read a lot, too. And oftentimes those two endeavors collide. Case in point, I try to make time to read about film, from filmmaking 101 … Continue reading →