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in Op-edWe Still Don’t Understand ‘Asteroid City’… But It Doesn’t Matter. Just Keep Telling the Story.
I don’t play him as an alien, actually. I play him as a metaphor. That’s my interpretation. Metaphor for what? I don-I don’t know, yet. We don’t pin it down. We don’t pin it down. The actor who plays the alien speaks of his approach to portraying the alien, interpreting his place in the story, […] More
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On the Early Year Radar…
Sorry about disappearing at the start of the New Year, folks. I want to thank Joey and the team for supporting me during a pretty stressful month, and I look forward to this incident being an unpleasant blemish on an otherwise wonderf… oh, who am I kidding? 2024 is going to be a nightmare of […] More
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On the Radar… (December Edition)
The last month of 2023! Time to enjoy holiday cheer, YouTuber implosions, and get prepared for the worst and most exhausting election year of our lifetimes. We also have the last slate of this year’s feature films coming out, many of which are among the most anticipated of the entire year, and surprisingly, I’m not […] More
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Two Right Ways to Do a Biopic, and One Wrong Way
I am very interested in how Oppenheimer will turn out this weekend, even before reading Joey rave about it after seeing it himself. It’s one of the most ambitious American films of the year in terms of scope (Killers of the Flower Moon and Dune: Part Two are the only upcoming releases that might put up a serious challenge […] More
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What’s Inside Victory Headquarters in ‘Don’t Worry Darling?’
Note: Spoilers ahead for Don’t Worry Darling. One of my favorite insights about the art of storytelling came from the legendary auteur Billy Wilder: “If you have a problem with your third act, the real problem is in your first act. What’s inside Victory Headquarters? That’s the burning question Alice needs answered in Olivia Wilde’s […] More
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Sunday Scaries: The Hellbound Opportunity
Of all the iconic horror movie franchises birthed within that “boom” period between 1973 and 1988, Hellraiser is probably the most interesting to me. Not the overall best; until those stupid prequels came along, I’d have handily picked Alien as pound-for-pound the most artistically accomplished horror franchise overall. Not the one with the highest highs; […] More
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Sunday Scaries: A “Classic” As Groundbreaking As It Is Terrible
Twenty years ago this weekend, one of the most ambitious, ahead-of-its-time horror movies of the 21st century was released, containing traces of virtually every aesthetic and trope that would become increasingly popular for the genre in the years since. Twenty years ago this weekend, one of the most dreary, incoherent, luridly misogynistic torture porn nonsense […] More
