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Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Hey kids! Comics! A Teachable Moment

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The editors of We're Still Here have linked to my movie blog instead of my comics and art blog , so I thought I'd provide a landing...
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Thursday, July 06, 2017

Shameless Self-Promotion: We're Still Here

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The Kickstarter for We're Still Here, a comics anthology by trans creators, is live. There's a long story by yours truly in this boo...
Monday, June 26, 2017

Bullets and Bracelets

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Sing, O goddess, the wrath of Diana of Themyscira, daughter of Queen Hippolyta, that brought countless ills upon the scions of Germany. Man...
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Maneater

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I wasn't expecting Raw (2016, directed by Julie Ducournau) to be funny. I mean, French extreme horror movies like Inside or Martyrs ...
Saturday, April 08, 2017

The Grant Mystique: Wings in the Dark

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By 1935, Cary Grant was becoming a headline attraction. His signature roles were still ahead of him, but he had enough box-office appeal th...
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Saturday, March 11, 2017

A Short Update

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Oh, hai. According to my analytics, there are still people coming to my blog every day, so I thought I'd stop in and let you all know w...
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Monday, January 16, 2017

The Grant Mystique: This is the Night

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There are more films starring Cary Grant in my movie collection than films starring any other actor. No small feat given how many films I h...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

Winter 2016: Jazz

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On the evidence of Whiplash and La La Land (2016), director Damien Chazelle sure likes jazz. He likes it so much that he wants to save it...
Monday, January 02, 2017

Winter 2016: Nocturnal Ocean Beasts

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Here are some comments on some of the films I've been seeing this month. I don't have the heart or fortitude for my usual jeremiads...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016

The Doctor is In

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Doctor Strange (2016, directed by Scott Derrickson) is the latest cog in Marvel Studios' massive marketing machine. By now, these are ...
Sunday, November 20, 2016

Trans in Africa

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There is a scene in The Pearl of Africa (2016, directed by Jonny von Wallström) in which the film's transsexual heroine watches the ne...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016

With A Little Help from My Friends

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A Man Called Ove (2015, directed by Hannes Holm) is Sweden's submission for this year's Oscars. It's not a perfect film by any...
Monday, October 31, 2016

Hidden in Plain Sight

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The Hidden (1987, directed by Jack Sholder) is one of those films from the 1980s that took full advantage of the video revolution. A margi...
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Sunday, October 23, 2016

Super Freaky

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Of the five films Stuart Gordon made from stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Castle Freak (1995) is the one that completely misses the mark. Love...
Friday, October 14, 2016

Like Father, Like Son

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If David Cronenberg's The Fly is a drama with gooey special effects thrown in, then The Fly II (1989, directed by Chris Walas) is a m...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

Baying at the Moon

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Howl (2015, directed by Paul Hyett) is another iteration of the Night of the Living Dead/Rio Bravo siege film, in which a train full of ...
Saturday, October 01, 2016

Food for Worms

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I was in high school the last time I saw Lucio Fulci's Zombie (1979) in one sitting. I've seen bits of it in the years since. Its...
Monday, September 05, 2016

Beyond this Horizon

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No one is more pleased than I am that the new Star Trek film, Star Trek Beyond (2016, directed by Justin Lin) is head and shoulders bette...
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Thursday, September 01, 2016

Living and Dead Girls

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This post was written a couple of years ago for a book project. That book has since fallen through, so I'm taking the opportunity to pu...
Tuesday, August 09, 2016

I Ain't Afraid of No Ghosts

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I was rewatching John Landis's Animal House a few months ago when it occurred to me that I was rooting for Dean Wormer. He gets the be...
Monday, July 04, 2016

Immortality isn't Forever

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Here are some more capsule reviews of what I've been watching this spring. The Age of Adaline (2015, directed by Lee Toland Krieger),...
Sunday, June 19, 2016

Lobsters and Tigers

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Hello movie world. It's me again. I know, I know. It's been a while. It's not you, it's me. On the off chance that anyone i...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Shelter from the Storm

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I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail Poisoned in the bushes an’ blown out on the trail Hunted like a crocodile, ravaged i...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Bothered and Bewitched

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The Witch (2015, directed by Robert Eggers) has been the new big thing in the horror genre since it debuted at Sundance last year. Like th...
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Saturday, February 20, 2016

Render Unto Caesar

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I don't remember the last time I had such a keen anticipation for a movie like the one  I had for the Coen brothers' latest film, H...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

Suburban Ghosts Revisited

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If you ever want an object lesson in the things that make a good movie vs. the things that make a bad movie, you could do worse than make a...
Saturday, December 26, 2015

Blunt Force

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I don't hate the Star Wars prequels. Indeed, there's a lot about them that I like quite a bit. I like the emphasis on politics, gi...
Sunday, December 06, 2015

Spectres and Apparitions

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Daniel Craig's fourth outing as James Bond, Spectre (2015, directed by Sam Mendes), has a valedictory quality to it, as if it intends ...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

The Criterion Blogathon: Viridiana

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Luis Buñuel's late career has been described as one of the great artistic flowerings in cinema. Starting in (roughly) 1961, the convent...
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Sunday, November 01, 2015

Deeper Red

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The heroine of Crimson Peak (2015), Guillermo Del Toro's return to horror filmmaking, is named "Edith Cushing," a name with ...