The ramblings of a wannabe cineaste. Join me as I dissect the art of storytelling in films, comics, TV shows, and video games.
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Review: A Good Day to Die Hard
Len Wiseman can now sleep a bit more easily, secure in the knowledge that he is no longer responsible for the worst Die Hard movie ever...
Review - Silent Hill: Revelation
Unremarkable. That’s it. That one word sums up my feelings toward Silent Hill: Revelation. Utterly unremarkable. It’s almost remarkable...
Review - Resident Evil: Retribution
I’ll give Paul W.S. Anderson this much: he’s made the best-looking film of his career. From the opening sequence—an explosive action...
Review: Chernobyl Diaries
It opens with vacation footage. Three stereotypical American tourists do stereotypical American tourist-y things, skipping and laughing...
Review: Battleship
Battleship is a fantastic romantic comedy. It throws together all the classic genre ingredients: the handsome, compassionate, but...
Review: Incredibles 2
I won’t bury the lede: I don’t think that Incredibles 2 is as good as the original. And honestly, that’s not surprising; fourteen years...
Review: My Friend Dahmer
Thor: Ragnarok hit theaters this weekend, but there’s another, smaller comic book adaptation playing at Village East Cinema that I simply...
Review: Mary and the Witch's Flower
As Studio Ghibli restructures in the wake of co-founder Hayao Miyazaki’s… “retirement,” several of its former employees (including...
Review: The Secret World of Arrietty
The Secret World of Arrietty (scripted by veteran animator Hayao Miyazaki and directed by first-timer Hiromasa Yonebayashi) once again...
Review: Hitler's Hollywood
There’s a brilliant moment in Bob Fosse’s adaptation of Cabaret that’s always stuck with me: our heroes are attending a picnic on a...
Review: Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Caught a screening of Won’t You Be My Neighbor? at Angelika. I’ll be honest: despite its almost universally positive reception, I went...
Review: American Animals
On something of a whim (thanks to a sudden and aggressive marketing push by MoviePass), I headed over to Union Square to catch a...
Review: Stop Making Sense
As part of its last major series of midnight screenings, Sunshine Cinema played Stop Making Sense, the late Jonathan Demme’s Talking...
Review: The Flute and the Arrow
Caught a screening of The Flute and the Arrow at Metrograph. I’d never heard of it before, but it’s old and foreign, which always piques...
Review: Gray's Anatomy
Popped over to FilmStruck to watch Gray’s Anatomy, a captivating monologue by famed oral storyteller Spalding Gray. As is often the case...
Review: The Departure
Someone recently recommended that I check out the Metrograph Theater, so today, I made my way over to Canal and Ludlow to catch a...
Review: Ascent
Caught a screening of a documentary called Ascent at Film Forum. Honestly, the description on the website didn’t quite convince me that...
Review: Manifesto
Earlier this week, while browsing Film Forum’s website, I discovered a little movie called Manifesto, and it sounded so delightfully...
Review: Batman & Bill
Logged in to Hulu to watch Batman & Bill, a brilliant documentary about the life and legacy of William Finger—the long-uncredited...





















