Without a Walter White, what is the point of this dull affair?
Michael Bay, Donald Trump and the bro-fantasy of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
Smug Michael Bay returns.
A Mute Tilda Swinton Shines in A Bigger Splash
Tilda Swinton immortal space goddess, scion of David Bowie, wafting divinity and musk, descends from Shangri La down here to meat-space to offer gifts of beatitude. I believe it. And I think Tilda does too. There a few movie stars who somehow manifest capital C Celebrity, as if they were a literal star, a celestial […]
Keanu, Key and Peele, and the Fluidity of Race
For Key and Peele, ‘blackness’ is a fairly abstract concept.
The Jungle Book: a CGI marvel and giddy adventure
Escaping the uncanny valley with human animal hybrids
Demolition: Schadenfreude the Gyllenhaal way
Life is complicated. Smash it with a sledgehammer.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot tries to make the War in Afghanistan Funny. Fails.
Tina Fey just isn’t Tina Fey enough
Apocalypse Cow
Apocalypse Now just isn’t that great and Brando is to blame
Magic Zones: Geoff Dyer, Andrei Tarkovsky and Film Criticism as Antidote to Loneliness
Eradicating borders between film and criticism, with a long Russian film from the 1970s.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies misunderstands Jane Austen. And Zombies
Misunderstanding Jane Austen and Zombies leads to un-fun parody