Review: Love, Antosha, 2019, dir. Garret Price

I’m not the kind of guy who speaks ill of the dead, but that doesn’t mean I’m crazy about films made in their honor, either. Continue reading →

Review: Thoroughbreds, 2018, dir. Cory Finley

If I’m a fan of only two things in this world, it’s a) Intimate, small-scale, character-driven horror-thrillers about the inhumanity of humans, and b) Anya Taylor-Joy So there. (I’m a fan of a great deal many more things than a) and b), of course, but work with me here for once.) I talked to Taylor-Joy … Continue reading →

Interview: Jeremy Saulnier, “Green Room”

Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room is an unflinching, vicious piece of work, and if you are either faint of heart or weak of stomach, I think it’s probably my job to steer you away from it. Or maybe I should steer you toward it. I’m not a mean guy or anything, but if I’m being honest, Green Room … Continue reading →

Review: 5 to 7, 2015, dir. Victor Levin

“Making a romantic comedy in New York without referencing the works of Woody Allen or Neil Simon is a tall order. For decades, television, movies and music have extolled the Big Apple as a place where dreams come true, as a burg of endless amorous possibility. We’re well past the point where stories of young … Continue reading →

2011 Rising: My Films to Watch (pt.1)

For me, 2010’s in the bag, but it’s not totally wrapped up until I take the time to ruminate over the upcoming slate of movies in 2011 that excite me, discourage me, intrigue me, or puzzle/offend me (and, of course, also post the rest of my top ten, which is, I promise, coming around the … Continue reading →