“Wrinkle Your Brain With Amanda Kramer’s Flamboyant ‘Please Baby Please'”

A movie so thick with dialogue, kink, suppressed violence, period references, and sexy sex that I’m not sure I really got it all the first time around. Continue reading →

Review: In Search of Fellini, 2017, dir. Taron Lexton

If you want an unbiased take on Taron Lexton’s In Search of Fellini, look elsewhere than here (or my review, up at Paste Magazine); I am forever and always a lover of all things related to the great master of Italian cinema, so if you make a movie wrapped around an abiding passion for him, I’m … Continue reading →

TV Review: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, 3.03, “Boyle’s Hunch”

“What do you want out of your sitcom? Twenty two-ish minutes of escalating hilarity that, in the end, ties everything up as neatly as a bow knotted by Martha Stewart’s own fastidious hands? Do you want to invest yourself in the characters, or is pointlessly chuckling your chief concern? Are you interested in material with … Continue reading →