Julia Ducournau’s Raw is a deliciously fucked endurance test, one that rattles your insides and challenges you without mercy. A coming-of-age story that depicts and/or explores, among other thin…
‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Review: “The Other Woman”
Ryan Murphy’s productions tend to be a little, well, melodramatic. That’s fair to say. They don’t merely dip their toes into dramatics; they practically relish in extremism. And when…
‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Review: “Pilot”
Often charitably, my friends tell me that I hold an encyclopedic knowledge on film. But I have to make a confession: I know very little about Joan Crawford and Bette Davis’ “legendaryR…
Album Review: Dirty Projectors — “Dirty Projectors”
Perhaps more so than usual, especially of late, I walk away from Dirty Projectors’ latest, self-titled album Dirty Projectors of two different, maddeningly inconsistent minds. The first album to…
Movie Review: The Comedian
Robert De Niro’s relationship with comedy is… well, pretty turbulent. In the right hands, he’s absolutely brilliant. In the wrong hands, the two-time Oscar winner finds his name in f…
In Celebration of Carrie Fisher, The Writer, As Seen Through The Princess Diarist
A little over a month ago, in a galaxy not very far, far away, we lost Carrie Fisher. Please note: I said Carrie Fisher, not Princess Leia. The Alderaan royalty will live long, and though she’s …
Movie Review: Monster Trucks
One has to admire the sheer audacity behind Paramount’s injudicious Monster Trucks. Conceived by a studio executive’s four-year-old son (no joke), it’s a buddy sci-fi action-comedy w…