Before I go into my rant, let me just say that I still haven’t had a chance to check out the new Star Trek series Star Trek: Discovery. I only…
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Though the focus of this blog will be on film, I thought I would occasionally post my thoughts on some TV/cable/Internet shows that strike me in some way. (Side note:…
It just occurred to me that readers of this blog might be interested in this short piece I wrote for another publication. It is more along the lines of a…
Stanley Kubrick is one of my all time favorite filmmakers, right up there with Yasujiro Ozu, Charlie Chaplin, Luis Buñuel, Ken Loach, and Lars von Trier. I appreciate him so much…
If you still haven’t seen Disconnect (it had a limited release so I suspect it has flown under the radar for many), do yourself a favor and check it out,…
Despite a couple of moments in the film that I had issues with, overall, I loved Captain Fantastic, a refreshingly transgressive mainstream film that is both thoroughly thought provoking political…
I just finally screened Arrival (2016, Denis Villeneuve) and felt compelled to express some thoughts I had on it. For me, there are some seriously profound aspects of the film…
In light of the Dakota Access Pipeline Protest – and in the extreme importance of winning this fight against transnational corporate power (more on this in a moment) – I…
For me, the power of In the Fog (2013, Sergei Loznitsa) – a gritty, raw film depicting the painful brutalities and atrocities during Germany’s occupation of the territory of Belarus…
Disturbingly, Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency suggests a sociopathy in America, making the film (and novel) American Psycho even more relevant today. As I’ve said elsewhere (see my horror…