David Fincher's self-effacing assassin movie about modern living, The Killer is a wry thriller imperfectly pursuing perfection. I reviewed this very fun movie about a delusional loser:
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12:43 PM - Oct 26, 2023
Sung Kang makes his directorial debut with Shaky Shivers, a horror-comedy so hacky it’d make any self-respecting ax murderer hang up his hatchet. My review: https://www.pastemagazine....
11:29 AM - Sep 21, 2023
It Lives Inside has the dumbest horror scene I've seen all year and the rules for its monster change in every new sequence.
And yet, if we're gonna get a generic bad movie, I'd prefer it to be one like this. My review:
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And yet, if we're gonna get a generic bad movie, I'd prefer it to be one like this. My review:
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01:49 PM - Sep 20, 2023
As Michael Jai White releases Outlaw Johnny Black into the world, I wrote 2000 words on the amazing, hilarious, lovingly crafted Blaxploitation parody that is Black Dynamite: https://www.pastemagazine....
10:13 AM - Sep 15, 2023
Wrote about my favorite bad movie, and how it encapsulates everything great with a certain kind of bad movie. Here's my case for Neil Breen's Fateful Findings being a gateway drug for future bad movie connoisseurs: https://www.pastemagazine....
03:58 PM - Sep 01, 2023
Wrote up Fremont, which is a little like if Jim Jarmusch directed the fortune cookie episode of Rocko's Modern Life: https://www.pastemagazine....
02:35 PM - Aug 24, 2023
Birth/Rebirth is an irreverent, smart bolt of lightning for the undead subgenre. A clever reminder that a family can look like anything, even two loving frenemies raising a lil Frankenstein. My review: https://www.pastemagazine....
11:04 AM - Aug 18, 2023
Miguel Wants to Fight is what it says on the tin and nothing more: barely 70 minutes of high schoolers talking about action movies and jerking off. My review: https://www.pastemagazine....
12:41 PM - Aug 16, 2023
Someday someone at Netflix will see an actual movie and they will feel so stupid about what they've been spending their money on.
I wrote about Fake Movies and Heart of Stone: https://www.pastemagazine....
I wrote about Fake Movies and Heart of Stone: https://www.pastemagazine....
09:22 AM - Aug 12, 2023
I wrote about King Coal, and how American it is for industry to become religion.
Details include: coal t-shirts, coal dust fun runs, coal-based beauty pageants, and HS football players (the Miners, duh) slapping coal before games https://www.pastemagazine....
Details include: coal t-shirts, coal dust fun runs, coal-based beauty pageants, and HS football players (the Miners, duh) slapping coal before games https://www.pastemagazine....
10:15 AM - Aug 11, 2023
Underwhelmed by Brother, which I found a little stiff and conventional, but I do admire how filmmaker Clement Virgo frames violence as show-stoppingly appalling https://www.pastemagazine....
03:26 PM - Aug 08, 2023
I reviewed A Compassionate Spy, a thin Manhattan Project documentary filled with amateurish reenactments, shocking archival details, and a wandering focus: https://www.pastemagazine....
01:30 PM - Aug 03, 2023
Reviewed the thrilling basketball anime movie The First Slam Dunk, which has a great blend of animation styles, a noticeable Raging Bull influence, and plenty of microaggressions towards its Black characters https://www.pastemagazine....
12:01 PM - Jul 28, 2023
I was personally attacked by Afire, a blackly funny and surprisingly sensual #Movie about a writer who will not have fun one time in his life. My #Review :
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10:16 AM - Jul 14, 2023
Reviewed a new #indigenous doc out this week, Lakota Nation vs. United States, which soars when cutting through all of America's BS with poetic simplicity https://www.pastemagazine.... #moviereview
04:56 PM - Jul 12, 2023
Wrote about a nutty little Chilean action #Movie that'll go down as the best pure #MartialArts film of 2023: Fist of the Condor https://www.pastemagazine....
03:21 PM - Jun 30, 2023
I found myself very moved by #wesanderson 's Asteroid City, so I wrote about the film's yearning search for meaning and its case for making art, even if it feels like nobody's out there listening https://www.pastemagazine.... #Movies
03:51 PM - Jun 19, 2023
I reviewed Past Lives, a brilliantly bittersweet, decades-spanning romance composed of crystalized memories #film #Movies #Review https://www.pastemagazine....
11:54 AM - Jun 02, 2023
Reviewed the lush yet familiar friendship drama The Eight Mountains, a winner at 2022's Cannes: https://www.pastemagazine.... #moviereview #Movies
04:55 PM - May 22, 2023
I reviewed the awful White Men Can't Jump remake, which seems to have been made solely so that a bunch of Black people can validate Jack Harlow: https://www.pastemagazine.... #Movies #moviereview
02:05 PM - May 18, 2023
IP obsession has killed mid-budget #Movies , it’s killed the movie star, and it’s coming for the rest of the industry. I wrote about the venture capital philosophy poisoning Hollywood: https://www.pastemagazine.... #filmtwitter
10:14 AM - May 10, 2023
On its 75th anniversary, I wrote about Laurence Olivier's innovative Hamlet, and how its #FilmNoir and #horror influences helped make the first time #Hamlet was filmed in sound into something special: https://www.pastemagazine....
12:55 PM - May 04, 2023
Sakra sees the 60-year-old Donnie Yen direct himself in a wuxia with a complicated coming-of-age plot that he could clearly care less about. My review: https://www.pastemagazine.... #MartialArts
04:50 PM - Apr 18, 2023
Wrote about the techno-cosmic horror of deepfake porn in Cam, the first film by How to Blow Up a Pipeline's Daniel Goldhaber https://www.pastemagazine....
02:06 PM - Apr 10, 2023
Happy Super Mario Bros. Movie week! To kick things off, let me debunk the myth that the original Mario movie was the first attempt at a live-action video game movie: https://www.pastemagazine....
12:43 PM - Apr 03, 2023
If you liked the show Danger 5 or have been amused by French surrealism in the past, I can't recommend the very silly Smoking Causes Coughing enough. Just deliciously stupid stuff. My review: https://www.pastemagazine....
03:07 PM - Mar 31, 2023
Some more folks are moving over here from Twitter as the Great Verified Purge looms, so here's my review of the dreadful new Shazam!
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10:20 PM - Mar 30, 2023
Reviewed the indie #horror The Outwaters, a found footage film better at showcasing its auteur's abilities than in constructing effective weird fiction. I wrote on epistolary fiction, (sub)genre conventions, and the Scary Maze Game: https://www.pastemagazine....
05:35 PM - Feb 13, 2023
