Soak Up the Screen
I’ll admit this right now: I’ve never seen a single episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. I just never found the time, and my experience of...
Pain Cake
You may have heard the whispers about a movie called Cake that stars Jennifer Aniston and played at the Toronto Film Festival. The lead...
Hard Winter
The discontent over this year’s Oscars has been all about the overwhelming whiteness of the nominees. Most of that discontent has coalesced around Selma,...
Odds and Ends
Just like last January, I find myself having watched a bunch of movies from the previous 12 months that I found intriguing but didn’t...
Takedown
After billionaire wrestling benefactor John du Pont was arrested in 1989 for murdering coach and former Olympic gold medalist Dave Schultz, the police announced...
Firing Blind
It has become a depressingly familiar ritual during awards season: movies based on real-life events being picked apart by professional trolls and op-ed writers....
Infinite Hope
I always write with one eye on how history will judge the movies I’m writing about. From that standpoint, I have a sneaking suspicion...
Pot P.I.
Here’s a great matchup of movie director and book. Thomas Pynchon’s 2009 novel Inherent Vice features the reclusive postmodern giant at his wackiest and...
Top 10 Movies of 2014
I didn’t put any foreign-language films in my list of the year’s best movies. How the hell did that happen? Did the entire non-Anglophone...
Screw You, North Korea! I Saw The Interview.
When last we checked in with The Interview, Sony Pictures had pulled the film from theaters and been roundly criticized for it. Since then,...
