You’ve seen the image online or you’ve seen it in your dreams. The gaping mouth, the white of the eyes. The finger pointing straight into the lens. The terrible moment of mirror revelation: I know what you are. Read More
PositionAssociate Editor
JoinedMay 27, 2017
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In 2020, Burn After Reading feels both more ridiculous and more painful than when it was first released—more capable of breaking down your defenses against laughter, and more likely to keep you up at night. Read More
We are all slowly suffocating on the dust of this country, on the oxygen-less air of American exceptionalism. No one is coming to drill us out. Read More
At their hearts, Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood share a key notion: your greatest asset (some pun intended) too often ends up being your greatest curse. Read More
t’s lowbrow. It’s juvenile. It’s crude; it’s course. It’s impulse, not intellect. It siphons its humor from someone else’s pain.... Read More
I am not a Carrie. I am not a Miranda or a Samantha or a Charlotte. I’m also not a... Read More
Lost Highway is no exception to Lynch’s disregard for linear and/or comprehensible story lines. And yet it solicits more curiosity than frustration. Read More
Chris & Elizabeth Cantwell, discuss one of the most legendary films of the 1960s. Read More
Watching The Big Sleep, the question bouncing around in my head was not is this a good film, but rather, why is this a good film, and how? Read More
It is summer in America and everywhere you look you see people in denial. You are waiting for someone to turn the boat around. Read More
You cannot love Twin Peaks unless you love Agent Cooper; the liminal space of the town is the liminal space of Cooper’s own reality. Read More
American Hustle captures us because it gets us. Read More