Park Chan-wook’s protagonists make a decision to leave; I’m banking on you all to make a decision to READ. Continue reading
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“The Power of Grist Compels You! Why Horror Movies and Beer Go Better Together.”
In fairness, horror movies pair well with lots of things, from candy to drive-ins to PB&Js, but there isn’t a better pairing with horror than a frosty one. Continue reading
“The Perfect Beer and Snack Pairings For That Big Game”
In technical sportsball term, the delay on posting this could be referred to as an unforced error. Continue reading
“‘Cruel Summer’ Is A Smart, Pulpy Mystery Series With A Bit Too Much Flash”
There’s nothing crueler than a summer…of MURDER Continue reading
“Alex de la Iglesia’s ‘The Day of the Beast’ and ‘Perdita Durango’ Helped Define a Director with Mid-’90s Madness”
I would say “never change, Álex de la Iglesia,” but honestly, it’s been over 20 years and he definitely has not. It’s a good thing! Continue reading
“Why It’s So Uniquely Hard To Deal With Anti-Maskers”
Short version: You can’t argue with crazy. Long version: Law enforcement is hard in two different kinds of pandemics. Continue reading
“Hitch a Slimy, Slithering Ride with ‘Sputnik'”
Insert “in Soviet Russia” joke here. Continue reading
“‘Defending Jacob’: Chris Evans Can’t Rescue This Heavy-Handed Drama Series”
When an abundance of talent produces a result so middle of the road that you’d rather it’d turned out as shit. 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
“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
“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
Go to Trillium’s New Beer Garden…Now
Another day, another article about beer, my third love after television and the movies. This ain’t much (though it took a lot of trying to put it together, plus the kind intervention of some of Trillium’s wonderful employees), but every single word of that “ain’t much” is meant with my whole being. If you’re in … Continue reading
TV Review: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Episode 4.15, “The Last Ride”
Spoiler alert: The title of this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a lie. Just thought I should tell you that upfront, because there is just no way anyone could have guessed that on their own, no sir. (This is my shorthand, smartass way of saying that I dug “The Last Ride” in spite of its predictability, because … Continue reading
The 10 Best Movies in Theaters Right Now (April 17th Edition)
More “best movies in theaters” shenanigans, comin’ at ya! This month, we have a slew of mostly new titles, including my favorites of the bunch, Get Out and Colossal, a movie I’ve yet to write anything about* but which I love to the moon and back. It’s basically the movie Trainwreck wanted to be, except that it’s great … Continue reading
Review: The Workers Cup, 2017, dir. Adam Sobel
I’m not at Sundance, but that doesn’t mean I can’t remotely cover Sundance from home! For The Playlist, I reviewed a pretty good documentary called The Workers Cup, about workers building the future stadium for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, and by “building” I mean “kinda being treated as subhuman by their employers in some truly fucked … Continue reading
Review: The Red Turtle, 2017, dir. Michaël Dudok de Wit
Surprise: Studio Ghibli made a beautiful movie. Once you’re done collecting your jaw from the floor, you can click this link and zip over to The Playlist and read the review I wrote about Michaël Dudok de Wit’s The Red Turtle, a movie so lovely, minimalist, and thoughtful that it may assuage whatever sociopolitical anxieties you’re wrestling … Continue reading
TV Review: Taboo, Episode 1.02
Annnnnnd just like that, after Taboo‘s pilot episode, we see a steep drop-off in its palability. I wouldn’t call it “bad,” per se, but boy, it is way overstuffed; each time I thought I’d finished summing up the events of the second episode (titled, rather simply, “Episode 2”), I realized that I’d left something out. Plot, … Continue reading
Review: The Bye Bye Man, 2017, dir. Stacy Title
Following Underworld: Blood Wars, the first stop on my January Tour of Terribleness, is The Bye Bye Man, a movie that is far worse but which I liked far more. You could say that this thing is so bad that it’s good, but if you did you’d be wrong. It’s so bad that its badness becomes spectacle and … Continue reading
Review: Underworld: Blood Wars, 2016, dir. Anna Foerster
What better way to kick off my 2017 than by taking a break from watching important films of substance (and, for the most part, high quality!) to watching movies like, well, this? It isn’t a secret that I think the entire Underworld series is awful, and it’s less a secret that its awfulness is a sore point … Continue reading
TV Review: Taboo, Episode 1.01
Since Brooklyn Nine-Nine is taking a break until April (April!), I’m satisfying my weekly TV recap cravings by reviewing Taboo, that wacky-ass Tom Hardy show on FX. It’s not bad! It’s also not great. The pilot starts off strong, and as you’ll see in recaps since, it stumbles a bit from being overburdened by plot; maybe if … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 