Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan slash fan fiction is a real thing (and other adventures...
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today: • You will not be able to unsee or unread what you see and read here. You have been warned. The Strange World of Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan Fan...
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Great Expectations (London Film Festival review)
I’m “biast” (pro): nothing I’m “biast” (con): nothing I have read the source material (but not for years and years) (what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) I love it when a film that is...
View Articlefinal video production diary for the first Hobbit film (and other adventures...
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today: • Videogames as art. Glad to see that Pac-Man and Myst — two of my favorite classics — are included in the collection… MoMA’s new...
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weekend watchlist: a movie worth paying premium VOD prices for
First published May 14th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon. Don’t spend hours scrolling the menus at Netflix, Amazon Prime, and other movie services. I point you to the best new films and hidden gems to...
View ArticleThe Mist movie review: we have met the monsters…
Frank Darabont’s adaptations of Stephen King’s writings are not just some of the best mountings of the writer’s work but some of the best films, period, of recent years: The Shawshank Redemption,...
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Knock at the Cabin movie review: there appears to be an apocalypse happening
If Oscar Wilde was alive and writing film criticism today, he might say something like this: There is only one thing worse than an M. Night Shyamalan movie with a twist ending. And that is an M. Night...
View Articledaily scream: when ghosts of the past still haunt the present
The Daily Stream becomes the Daily Scream for spooky season! It’s not often that we can call a horror film beautiful and unexpectedly delicate, but damned if that doesn’t apply to 2019’s Doctor Sleep....
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