For someone raised on a steady diet of classical Hollywood musicals, I Love Melvin is an enigmatic object. Read More
Night Shift touches the universal, and the divine, in its own small way, and all without ever losing sight of the urinal over its shoulder. Read More
It’s difficult to draw up an exact taxonomy of bad TV. There’s the obvious lowbrow, but there’s also middling-comfort TV that many of us in our 20s and 30s in India still reach for. Read More
Hail, Caesar! is a movie about movies. Read More
"It’s basically a coming of age story, but it appeals to me enormously because Kenny manages to both embrace the wonderfulness and beauty of adolescence and the shaping of an adult—how glorious it is, and what a great triumph it is for all of us that anybody survives their childhood or their adolescence." Read More
"You know how, in therapy, you realize something was the cause of something else? This film was like natural therapy for me. I started thinking, 'What else do I remember about the one-child policy, and how did it affect me?'" Read More
Abel Ferrara is a poet of the impotence, the pathos, the zero sum game of socially-acceptable expressions of masculinity. Read More
"Kenny has such a deep understanding of his characters, and also a deep understanding of human behavior. The way his characters relate to each other just strikes me as completely real and relatable, in a way I find profound in its simplicity." Read More
I told the almost comically friendly customs agent that I’m in Canada for business and not pleasure, so in the interest of not getting apprehended by the mounties, my top priority remains the almighty cinema. Read More
I can count, on one hand, the number of times I’ve cried since the beginning of March. On the same hand, I can count the number of times I’ve called home. Read More
"I think it’s a movie to really be proud of, no matter how difficult it was to make. I’m glad that Kenny survived it, really, and that everyone will gradually come to watch Margaret eventually. I think it’s something that will last." Read More