“‘Utopia’: Gillian Flynn’s Take On Hero Worship Is Bloody Fun”

Some utopia, everyone’s getting their throats stabbed or their eyes gouged out or their families killed. Bummer. Continue reading →

“The Best* Horror Film Of 2019 Is Secretly About Toxic Masculinity”

Or IS he? He isn’t. But he IS! Or is he? Buokay, okay, fine, I’ll stop, because whether Daniel is real or not (he is), this movie is very, very real. Continue reading →

Review: Hearts Beat Loud, 2018, dir. Brett Haley

For clarity’s sake, all of the things I say about Brett Haley in the intro to my review of his latest, Hearts Beat Loud, is absolutely true: I’ve never spoken to him one on one, but I have seen him speak, twice, two years in a row, at Independent Film Festival Boston, where in both appearances he … Continue reading →