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,...
Today Was a Fairytale
Way back before Disney rejuvenated itself by making animated musicals based on fairy tales sprinkled with witty songs, adult concerns, and a wisecracking modern...
My Wife Could Paint That
The way to understand Big Eyes is not as a movie about art nor as a Tim Burton film, though it’s both of those...
