My Most Anticipated 2020 Movies
Scanning the horizon for next year’s crop of movies yields the usual mix of excitement and despair. Some things haven’t changed much; franchise sequels continue to suck most of the […]
Tag Archives: horror
Double Feature: Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Suppose you met a vampire one night. You’d probably have some questions. If the first ones that came to mind pertained to the monster’s taste in music, I have news […]
Uh … 3 ½? — Get Out
The Introduction One of the true cinematic success stories of this decade, both popularly and critically, is Jordan Peele’s Get Out, an original movie in an age of franchises that managed […]
The Manson Movies of 2019
The formula could be expressed thusly, matching up with the chronology of the three films’ premiere dates: Mary Harron’s Charlie Says (Venice Film Festival, September 2, 2018) intends to demythologize the […]
My Most Anticipated 2019 Movies
As it turns out, two things can be true at once. First, with the aid of a couple different subscription services, I’ve been able to see more movies from the […]
Visual Comedy in Beetlejuice
The rap against most Hollywood comedies of recent vintage is that they’re visually dull. Their direction consists mostly of assembling a group of funny people and then merely pointing the […]
The End of the Beginning: My 10 Favorite BPFW Movies
Even before I really knew much about movies, I had a strange pride in the ones that came out in my birth year. There was a sense of ownership over […]
Announcing My 2018 Movie Retrospective: Baby Paul’s First Weekend
Today is my thirtieth birthday. I consider myself something of a late bloomer when it comes to dedicated movie-watching; I’ve always liked cinema, but only in the past eight or […]
Double Feature Triple Feature: Flies, Blobs ‘n Things
Before America had claimed the mantle of the great superpower of the Western world, the following premises would have been the stuff of B-movies and serials: Killer Plant-Man From Outer […]
A Poem for Halloween
This Is the Cobra’s Hood
Geppetto's Clocks 