Brief Thoughts: Apostle (2018)
Read moreGareth Evans’ APOSTLE is a stylishly unsubtle fable about the cultish brutality of ideological extremism, whether manifest in religious...
Brief Thoughts: First Man (2018)
Read moreDamien Chazelle’s FIRST MAN paints Armstrong’s ascent to the Moon as an escape from grief and familial responsibility, the...
Brief Thoughts: You Were Never Really Here (2017)
Read moreLynne Ramsay’s YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE: the plot of a pulpy action thriller subsumed into a hypnotic meditation...
Brief Thoughts: Succession
Read moreSUCCESSION is a fucking *beast*. The One Percent as deliciously, beautifully human as only fiction can make them, impressive...
Book Review: Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories by Vandana Singh
Read more‘Even when Vandana Singh’s stories are about saving worlds, they’re not. They’re about how we tell stories about saving...