Lowriders movie review: slow and furious
This melodrama about men unable to express themselves emotionally except through heavy machinery isn’t only clichéd: it doubles down on the clichés.
Year: 2017
curated: smells like summer blockbuster season in here
It is upon us.
curated: Honest Trailer for ‘La La Land‘
The best Honest Trailer yet.
Colossal movie review: becoming the monster
Wonderfully strange and weird and funny and dark and bitter. A deliciously geek-flavored metaphor for how damaged people heedlessly spread around their damage.
curated: “Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans”
Absolutely mad genius.
Below Her Mouth movie review: not that there’s anything wrong with that
Lesbian and not-quite-sure-if-she’s-a-lesbian have a weekend fling. Sometimes unintentionally hilarious, this is little more than soft-core porn.
Lady Macbeth movie review: the serpent under the innocent flower
An astonishing tale of privilege and power: stark, searing, and brutal, almost a Victorian companion to Get Out. Florence Pugh is a force of nature.
2016’s films ranked
I rank films on the fly as I see them during the 2016 awards year. This list is now final.
curated: ‘The Simpsons’ on Trump’s first 100 days
TOO REAL! TOO REAL!
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 movie review: 2 same 2 spurious
Thinks it’s edgy and transgressive, the punk little brother of all those other stodgy comic-book movies, but it isn’t. It’s just slightly more candy-colored.
