C Categories Movies Reviews June 3, 2022 Crimes of the Future offers up the human body as grotesque & beautiful art David Cronenberg returns to form in an elliptical and fascinating look at a dystopia where self-mutilation replaces sex
T Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies Reviews March 21, 2022 The Portrait of a Lady sees Jane Campion paint agency, control, and desire Campion followed The Piano with a Henry James adaptation dedicated to the magnificently fraught question of desire or duty.
H Categories Anniversaries Movies November 22, 2020 How “The Apple” killed the movie musical (for a little while) The futuristic religious allegory set to a disco-rock soundtrack turns 40 this week, & must be seen to be believed.
L Categories Reviews TV September 6, 2020 Lovecraft Country Episode 4 Recap: “A History of Violence” Atticus & the others return to Massachusetts in a shaky episode that swaps out horror for high adventure.
T Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies June 14, 2020 The “Psycho” remake is an ironically bloodless exercise in technique Gus Van Sant's remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic is a cut-and-paste exercise that plays like little more than a rehash of the original.
G Categories Movies November 20, 2018 Green Book Review: Playing the Same Old Song About Jim Crow Racism Peter Farrelly’s period road movie about a black piano player and his Italian driver in Jim Crow America doesn’t dig deep into American racism, but..