curated cinema: the madness and genius of Brian Wilson
2015’s Love & Mercy is on Prime and Apple TV+ on both sides of the Atlantic.
Paul Dano
daily stream: an extremely unhappy Thanksgiving
2013’s Prisoners is on Netflix on both sides of the Atlantic.
OFCS 2022 awards winners announced
Everything Everywhere All at Once leads with six wins; The Banshees of Inisherin takes fours awards. Twelve films overall earned awards.
The Batman movie review: to bat, or not to bat
No snark, no spandex pantomime spectacle. Just noir mystery, Pattinson’s sad recluse a detective in a cesspit of corruption. Relentlessly grim, all darkness and despair, not escapist but of our time.
Love & Mercy movie review: strange vibrations
Intense, unconventional, often uncomfortable portrait of Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson that transcends the typical clichés about madness and creativity.
Youth movie rating: red light
Overwrought nine-tenth-life crisis drama; not even a great cast can create sympathy for the artistic and existential turning points on arty display.
AWFJ 2015 EDA Awards winners announced
Spotlight takes four awards, including Best Film…
Prisoners review: the unbearable darkness of being
Please see this movie. We need to let Hollywood know that there is, in fact, an audience for sophisticated drama for adults.
Prisoners trailer: Detective who now?
I am deeply concerned about the fact that one character is called “Detective Loki.”
Ruby Sparks (review)
Ruby may be the most odious Manic Pixie Dream Girl ever, because she is a not-real woman, so we cannot even console ourselves with the notion that she has her own independent existence apart from Calvin.
