When I worked night shifts on-call as a dog hotel attendant in Vancouver, people kept telling me to write...
Went to the movies for David Gordon Green’s new HALLOWEEN to cheer myself up. After all, a cinematic manifestation...
Gareth Evans’ APOSTLE is a stylishly unsubtle fable about the cultish brutality of ideological extremism, whether manifest in religious...
Damien Chazelle’s FIRST MAN paints Armstrong’s ascent to the Moon as an escape from grief and familial responsibility, the...
Lynne Ramsay’s YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE: the plot of a pulpy action thriller subsumed into a hypnotic meditation...
SUCCESSION is a fucking *beast*. The One Percent as deliciously, beautifully human as only fiction can make them, impressive...
‘Even when Vandana Singh’s stories are about saving worlds, they’re not. They’re about how we tell stories about saving...
HEREDITARY is a near-masterpiece, and falls short because its use of grief and familial trauma as fuel for a...
POSE, which explores the lives of a variety of queer and trans characters involved in the Ball Culture of...
Finished THE TERROR, which resurrects the phantoms of a lost expedition driven by imperial hubris, sends them on a...
