Now Playing: “The Girl With All The Gifts”
I’ve grown tired of zombies. With The Walking Dead currently standing as AMC’s most watched show, the sub-genre has been tinkered with to death (un-death?) from straight retellings to comedic...
View ArticleNow Playing: “Fifty Shades Darker”
“Think of it as delayed gratification,” Dakota Johnson purrs at Jamie Dornan at one point in the sequel to the film adaptation of the much-ballyhooed erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey. In resisting...
View ArticleNow Playing: “The Salesman”
I’ve often thought that the only people who care less about the Academy Awards than film critics and Oscar pundits, both of whom annually sound off on each year’s round of nominations, are the Oscar...
View ArticleNow Playing “100 Streets”
We need to talk about Idris Elba. Specifically, we need to talk about the unfortunate trends that have characterized his movie career as of late. In this post-The Wire and post-Luther period, Elba has...
View ArticleNow Playing: “Paterson”
Nobody: Every night and every morn, some to misery are born. Every morn and every night, some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to sweet delight; some are born to endless night. ~ Dead Man (Jim...
View ArticleThe New Sequel
Of the write-ups that have been published in the lead-up to its release, none have been more indicative of the confusion surrounding the nebulous status of Rogue One in the Star Wars franchise than the...
View ArticleNow Playing: “Neruda”
My first memory of being aware of Pablo Neruda is from when I was 13, around the time I discovered the Rent Broadway cast recording. In the first act’s closing number, “La Vie Boheme,” the musical’s...
View ArticleNow Playing: “Jackie”
It’s telling that, in the days since my first viewing, the lasting impression of Pablo Larraín’s Jackie has been to remind me of another semi-recent biographical film, Experimenter (2015) in which...
View ArticleNow Playing: “I Am Not Madame Bovary”
Painterly, when used as an adjective to describe a film, is often rather nebulously employed to evoke that the movie in question possesses the quality of being “like a painting.” But what makes a film...
View ArticleNow Playing: “Doctor Strange”
We’re eight years in to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the house style has been well established. As the series’ tent-pole entries leading up to Joss Whedon’s The Avengers (2012) went on, any...
View ArticleNow Playing: “The Handmaiden” and “Tampopo”
With one perfect sweeping shot early on in The Handmaiden’s first act, Park Chan-Wook nearly gives away the game. Masquerading as a maid, Korean con-artist Sook-hee (Kim Tae-ri) is given a tour of the...
View ArticleNow Playing: “Blue Jay”
With the recent release of every episode of “Star Trek” on Netflix in Canada (to coincide with the franchise’s 50th anniversary), I’ve celebrated like any good Trekker: with an immediate binge of my...
View ArticleNow Playing: “The Lovers and the Despot”
“Everything sunny all the time always!” assures Kim Jong-Il (comedian Margaret Cho in dictatorial drag) during a North Korean weather report on an episode of NBC’s “30 Rock,” in which a prominent media...
View ArticleNow Playing: “Cameraperson” and “Author: The JT LeRoy Story”
It’s somewhat odd to think of Cameraperson director Kirsten Johnson as a first-time filmmaker. With over 20 years’ experience working as a cinematographer for acclaimed documentaries by Kirby Dick...
View ArticleNow Playing: “Kate Plays Christine”
I’ve long been an ardent critic of biopics that privilege absolute fidelity to the subject’s life over molding biographical details to fit a coherent theme or narrative. While the choice to adhere to...
View ArticleNow Playing: “Pete’s Dragon”
Remakes and reboots have attained such ubiquity that the mere suggestion that a studio is thinking of updating a familiar intellectual property is usually met with a collective eye-roll. Too acquainted...
View ArticleNow Playing: “Jason Bourne”
His reputation precedes him. The new ad-campaign tagline teased at our collective familiarity: “You know his name.” Who is Jason Bourne? It’s a question that has been the prevailing framework of the...
View ArticleLGBTrek: A Brief History of Queerness on “Star Trek”
During a recent interview promoting the upcoming release of Star Trek Beyond (2016), actor John Cho let slip it would be revealed that his character, Hikaru Sulu, is gay. Reactions ran the gamut. Some,...
View ArticleNow Playing: “Equals” and “Free to Run”
In two seemingly disparate films opening this week, the indie science fiction flick Equals and the sports documentary Free to Run, young people defy social norms in the pursuit of self-expression and...
View ArticleNow Playing: “The Purge: Election Year” and “Roseanne for President!”
In making sense of collective anxiety, the impulse to narrativize prevails. The ousting of England from the Euro Cup tournament by Iceland prompted immediate comparisons to the UK’s impending Brexit...
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