Movies

Thunderbolts*

So here we are, deep into the Marvel burnout era, where every new release feels like a post-credits scene from something better that came out five years ago. But against...

The Monkey

Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey is the latest in a long line of Stephen King adaptations, this time tackling one of the master’s lesser-known short stories. While King has always been...

All We Imagine as Light

Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light is one of those films that sneaks up on you. It starts as a quiet, observational drama, unfolding in the lives of two...

Saturday Night

On October 11th, 1975, the first episode of an upstart young sketch comedy show called Saturday Night hit the NBC airwaves. It originated because talk show god Johnny Carson wanted...

Joker: Folie à Deux

In 2019, Todd Phillips directed Joker, (very) loosely based on the DC Comics Batman villain. Joaquin Phoenix played Arthur Fleck, a mentally ill societal castoff who finds a new identity...

The Substance

I grew up on a smorg of wildly different influences that informed my film education. Everything from mainstream movies, to the wild VHS horror and exploitation films of John Carpenter...