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Boy Meets Girl movie review: a slightly kinder world

Mon, May 04, 2015
7 comments

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a smarter, warmer, more honest depiction of human sexuality than this roundrobin of emotion and attraction. I love this movie.

| 7 Comments

Unfriended movie review: the call is coming from inside Facebook!

Thu, Apr 30, 2015
16 comments

There’s little less compelling than a vague evil spirit with loosely defined powers doing random “scary” things as required by the script.

| 16 Comments

Get Hard movie review: go directly to jail

Thu, Mar 26, 2015
12 comments

All the comedic and visual elan of an amateur YouTube fratboy prank, including nonstop rape jokes and rampant homophobia. Are you laughing yet?

| 12 Comments

watch “The Doctor Puppet: The Planet That Came for Christmas“

Tue, Dec 23, 2014
3 comments

Brand new. So cute.

| 3 Comments

a new episode of the Doctor Puppet!

Mon, Sep 22, 2014
1 comment

So cute it hurts.

| 1 Comment

Into the Storm movie review: all wet

Fri, Aug 22, 2014
7 comments

A movie to make you despair of the found-footage conceit (if you weren’t already). Suddenly Twister looks like Shakespeare.

| 7 Comments

Deliver Us from Evil movie review: weak spirits

Thu, Aug 21, 2014
10 comments

A rote police procedural conducted by a cardboard movie cop investigating a supposedly demonic evil that simply cannot compete with nonsupernatural reality.

| 10 Comments

you can watch the first episode of Cinemax’s new series The Knick on YouTube (if you’re in the US)

Mon, Aug 11, 2014
2 comments

Or if, ahem, you have a U.S. IP address. First one’s free, kid…

| 2 Comments

punk-ass indie filmmaker fakes a quote from me to support his movie, gets smacked, hides like a chickenshit (updated)

Thu, Jul 24, 2014
30 comments

How Not to Be an Aspiring Filmmaker, Young Asshole Edition.

| 30 Comments

Frank movie review: the heart of artness

Fri, May 09, 2014
7 comments

A bitter dramedy of creative desperation that has something sneakily marvelous to say about what it takes — and what it doesn’t — to be an artist.

| 7 Comments
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