“50 Years Later, ‘Klute’ Still Has Volumes to Say on Sex and Being Seen”

You haven’t seen this movie already?! Man, you really need to get a Klute. Continue reading →

“‘F.T.A.’: Jane Fonda And Donald Sutherland’s Unearthed Anti-War Film Teach Us What Being Cancelled Really Looks Like”

Man, you think Dr. Seuss has it bad? Wait until you meet Jane Fonda. Continue reading →

Review: The Hunger Games, 2012, dir. Gary Ross

There’s so much surrounding The Hunger Games— socially, artistically, politically– that it’s hard to know where to start in writing a review about the latest pop-cultural literary and cinematic phenomenon. It feels somewhat gauche to begin by comparing Gary Ross’ adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ award-winning young adult novel to  Twilight, to which it owes something of a … Continue reading →

Review: The Mechanic, 2011, dir. Simon West

Anyone who’s remotely acquainted with cinematic hitmen knows, or should know, that as a rule they’re often at best isolated and at worst emotionally destitute and cripplingly alone as they soldier along a path through life that’s solitary by nature. Unsurprising, maybe; hitmen, after all, deal in the art of killing for money, though rarely … Continue reading →