Boy do I love this movie. Patti Cake$ is an optimistic Fish Tank, a hopeful Whiplash, a Jersey girl Once, a less rapey Saturday Night Fever. It’s joyous and hilarious and wildly depressing. And you should see it at the…
Movie Review: Menashe
Menashe is a movie that by all rights should not exist. Sitting in the theater, watching this film for the first time, I was preoccupied throughout with the question of how the hell this movie came into being. Some personal…
Movie Review: Columbus
It’s imperative that we establish a basic truth right off the bat. Maybe this is common knowledge and I’ve been living under a rock. It’s possible. I prefer to believe, however, that like me, most people have no idea just…
Movie Review: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Endless Poetry
An early scene in Endless Poetry has Ricardo, a newly self-accepting gay friend of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s, telling Jodorowsky that he wants to be more than friends. Jodoroswky rejects Ricardo on account of his being straight. “We can still be friends,”…
TV Review: Friends From College Season 1
It’s a lot less cool to like something that everyone else hates than it is to hate something that everyone else likes. That said, I kind of like Netflix’s new series Friends From College, which is currently sitting at a…
Movie Review: Lost in Paris
Lost in Paris, the new film by Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon, is the ultimate cinematic irritant. I imagine its target audience as the type of person who could watch The Grand Budapest Hotel and find it to be neither mannered nor detached…
