Nightbitch movie review: live, bark, love
Replaces the novel’s rage with gentle comedy, biting its tongue and undercutting its protagonist. Still, mundane truths about women’s realities that rarely get public airings are on welcome display.
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #3
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires.
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #2
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires.
all I want for Christmas: curated cinema holiday countdown #1
An Advent calendar of holiday movies to fulfill heartfelt desires.
curated cinema: “we cannot break bread with you…”
1993’s Addams Family Values is on Paramount+ on both sides of the Atlantic, and Netflix in the UK.
Red One movie review: a very copaganda Christmas
Unfunny action comedy can’t even pull off sloppy Yuletide kitsch. The anti-chemistry among its likable stars is “bested” only by the ugly CGI. Have some light festive violence — you know, for kids!
I’m back on movie podcast Ribbon of Memes, talking about ‘Midsommar’
I join hosts RogerBW and Nick Marsh to talk about Ari Aster’s 2019 horror flick Midsommar.
Blitz movie review: the unraveling of propaganda
Picaresque childhood misadventures sketch vibrant WWII London. A movie of brutal randomness, feral intensity, and ferocious intimacy. Wildly human, artistically masterful, and completely magnificent.
curated cinema: what it means to kill
2014’s Blue Ruin is streaming on Prime and Tubi in the US; not streaming in the UK (sorry).
curated cinema: a Method to the bloodsucking madness
2000’s Shadow of the Vampire is on Prime on both sides of the Atlantic.
