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Favorite films

  • Dainah the Mixed
  • Ruskin
  • Acto da Primavera
  • Lancelot of the Lake

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  • Communists

  • What Shall I Do With This Sword?

  • Running Fields

  • The Sons of Bitches Turned Out the Lights

    ★★★★

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  • Eat the Night

    Eat the Night

    Wrote up Eat the Night for Screen Slate, playing tonight at MoMI and next saturday in Los Angeles courtesy of Acropolis.

    In Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel’s feature debut Jessica Forever (2018), video games make a brief appearance as an auxiliary tool to commune with the dead. The world of Jessica Forever, a science-fiction version of France dominated by evil drones that seek out orphans to kill, recalls the many young adult dystopias that dominated cinemas through the 2010s (The…

  • Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice

    Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice

    Wrote this up for Screen Slate for its show tonight at BAM courtesy of the Theater of Matters

    The cinema of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet is one of cartographical propositions. It maps interpersonal, historical, and natural geographies. They were perfectionists and did not allow for a simple geometry to exist without accounting for its effect, graphing out the position of every body to another and the space they inhabited on-screen so that the total architectonic field suggested by their…

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  • Funny Games

    Funny Games

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    I wrote this years ago and I’ve changed a lot as a person/writer since then and would never write something like this today but this is definitely my most popular review so I’ll keep it up for ya even though I realllly want to delete it. 

    Anti-violence proves to be more disturbing, violent, and unsettling than violence.

    Haneke’s brutal takedown of the portrayal of violence in media is one that takes a few watches to truly appreciate. Following is my examination…

  • Barbie

    Barbie

    Greta Gerwig is clearly aware of the fact that a portion of the internet has soured on her in recent years, and makes every effort in Barbie to address those critiques. America Ferrera’s casting seems particularly of note, as Gerwig has long faced accusations of ripping off / whitening Ferrera’s Real Women Have Curves for 2017’s Lady Bird. Ferrera’s casting here would seem to imply a reconciliation, if there ever was a problem to be had between these women. The…