Blogs about Movies

I thought I'd take a moment to post the links for The End of History, the video essay series by myself and Tucker Johnson. This was my most ambitious video essay project to date from …

Chloe Okuno’s Top FiveChloe Okuno is an American director and screenwriter from Los Angeles. She has directed the feature film Watcher (2022), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and the segment "Storm Drain" for …

Dear all, I decided to keep my website behind a “paywall” without readers having to pay for it. I heard and read a lot about tech companies training their AIs with everything that is freely …

I lived with Mark since 2006. This time last year he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, and a little more than a month ago he died. His funeral was on 13th December 2022 at …

Chinatown (1974)

Tudum / Netflix: Scott Pilgrim is taking on the world again in a new anime series coming to Netflix on Nov. 17. Based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s hit graphic novels, which were adapted into the …

Can you guess the movie from its first and last shot? The answer is after the jump when you scroll down...

All Dolled Up (2005) Based around lo-fi backstage and onstage video of the Dolls in their heyday playing grungy NY punk clubs, also a local news report. It’s all archival, with plenty of hanging out …

“It would be logical to suppose that troubled art is born out of troubled times. But it would be wrong to be that systematic about it, for what period of history has sailed in, pre-ordained …

The subsequent dialogue between the two films developed after much negotiation and cajoling. They were inclined to be hostile to the other. I tried to inform them about their common[...] The post Bringing Down the …

'Starling' was produced through Pixar’s co-op program which allows employees to use studio equipment for their personal projects.

“Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It’s abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we’ll …

Invisible Beauty is a thoroughly engaging autobiography documentary by and about Bethann Hardison, the Black fashion model, modeling agency owner and activist who challenged racist attitudes and practices in the fashion industry and changed 'the …

piece I wrote originally published in the NoBudge Newsletter, 2013:Slashed through with punk-45-sleeve hues, The Deflowering of Ariella Von [Marianna Ellenberg and David Louis Zuckerman] represents a new Breakfast Club, that is, a similar odyssey-of-inertia, …

★★★★☆ Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's first film in six years, R.M.N. is a multi-faceted, oft-bleak, and occasionally surreal portrait of racism and toxic masculinity in Romanian society. In its depiction of a part of Europe …

Emanuele Crialese - 2022 Music Box Films BD Region A The title literally translates as "the immensity". That is easy enough to figure out. Inspired by the director's own life, especially his relationship with his …

Spirited (film)From the trailer, a crazy wall so big it needs one of those cool horizontally-sliding ladders to maintain it!(Thanks Tom)

Man in a high castle Hayao Miyazaki's version of Diana Wynne Jones' Howl's Moving Castle lurches out of mysterious fog right at the start of the film-- a gigantically mutated armored version of the Baba …

I watch westerns and baseball because of my grandfather but I love murder mysteries because of my mom. Back in the before times we entertained ourselves every night around the television. No internet and no …