“In ‘The Wolf of Snow Hollow,’ Being a Good Guy Is a Beast of a Job”

It’s hard being a good cop in America’s werewolf country, and I guess we can just leave that chad hanging there and walk away. Continue reading →

Review: Small Town Crime, 2018, dir. Eshom Nelms & Ian Nelms

It’s been a while since I saw the Nelms brothers’ Small Town Crime, and it’s also been a while since I wrote up my review for Paste Magazine (which you can now read ’til the cows come home, if that’s your idea of a good time), and I’ve come closer to nailing down what it is about … Continue reading →

Review Round-Up: A Bad Batch Of Small Crimes In Little Boxes

(What do any of these movies have in common with each other? Little and less, but maybe you can draw some links from one to the other to the third, especially between the first and the last in the round-up. Or maybe not. There’s not much that gooey indie dramedies, harsh crime stories, and acid-trip … Continue reading →

Review: The Descendants, 2011, dir. Alexander Payne

Alexander Payne strikes me as the sort of person who’s incapable of making a bad film. Limited body of work aside, critical success is critical success (which is to say nothing of Payne’s commercial victories in Sideways and About Schmidt), and with his darkly satirical examinations of contemporary American culture Payne has established for himself … Continue reading →