I’ll be upfront here: I really don’t agree with either the placement or inclusion of a big chunk of the movies included on Paste Magazine‘s 50 Best Movies Of 2017 list. (Notable entries: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, I, Tonya, John Wick Chapter 2, It, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Blade Runner 2049, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Logan, The Killing of a Sacred Deer.) But that … Continue reading
It’s rare that a single movie becomes the prism through which I view every other piece of popular culture I engage with in a given year; this is partly because movies capable of being that prism come along but rarely, and partly because when they do, they don’t typically appear in theaters during February, previously … Continue reading
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
A Constant Visual Feast 