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Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Careful With That Ax

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The day after I saw Mandy (2018, directed by Panos Cosmatos), I posted a knee-jerk reaction on social media to the effect that it was ...
Monday, July 16, 2018

Kingdom Come

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Juan Antonio Bayona would not have been the first name on my list to direct a Jurassic Park movie, and yet we have in theaters this summer...
Saturday, June 09, 2018

More Scenes from the Singularity

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I'm surprised that Upgrade (2018, directed by Leigh Whannell) actually made it into theaters. A science fiction/horror hybrid with a m...
Sunday, May 20, 2018

Hard Femme

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When first we see Jen, the heroine of Coralie Fargeat's blood-soaked rape/revenge fantasy, Revenge (2017), she's the very picture ...
Sunday, April 15, 2018

Death and the Maiden

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Somewhere in the middle of A Fantastic Woman (2017, directed by Sebastián Lelio), I began to get irritated at the miseries heaped on Marin...
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Sunday, February 04, 2018

The Grant Mystique: Enter, Madame!

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From a perspective eighty years later, it's surprising to see Cary Grant second billed to Elissa Landi in Enter, Madame! (1935, direct...
Saturday, November 25, 2017

The Fall Movie Quiz

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Dennis Cozzalio has another of his movie quizzes up over at Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule . Here are my answers. What you can deduc...
Monday, October 16, 2017

Dr. Frankenstein, I Presume

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It seems inconceivable to me that I'd never seen The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958, directed by Terence Fisher) before this week. I spe...
Friday, October 06, 2017

A Kaiju Haunting

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Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001, directed by Shûsuke Kaneko) has a novel big idea. It postulates ...
Sunday, October 01, 2017

Any Landing You Can Walk Away From

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It's October again. That means it's time for the October Horror Movie Challenge, in which I try to watch 31 horror movies during th...
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...