Here is a record of brief thoughts I jotted down while watching a glut of horror movies in October....
Having finished the eighth and final season of GAME OF THRONES, I’m mostly left with an abiding fondness for...
AVENGERS ENDGAME: me being underwhelmed by an MCU film’s (epic, overloaded) final act is as inevitable as Thanos, apparently,...
Loved (most of) the first half of Jordan Peele’s US, including a measured, haunting prologue and a terrific home...
First viewing of Wim Wenders’ WINGS OF DESIRE; a poem of a movie that makes of its audience angels...
Lee Chang-dong’s BURNING brought to mind no less than Leatherface’s twirl through the golden hour in THE TEXAS CHAIN...
THE FAVOURITE has the grotesque beauty of an 18th-century political cartoon painted in inky shadows and candlelight, ruling classes...
Saw Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA, still awash in its elemental grace. A richly ambiguous portrait of dysfunctional, deeply broken love–between...
I got the same frisson of discovery reading Tade Thompson’s ROSEWATER as I did reading William Gibson’s NEUROMANCER so...
SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE is one of the best superhero movies I’ve ever seen, and one of the most...
