Who was the Hollywood screenwriter, producer, or bigwig who saw Jeff Malmberg’s Marwencol (2010)—a bruising, heart-breaking film about trauma —and thought yes, this will make a perfect dramedic fantasy crowd-pleaser. It boggles the mind and the reasoning bits of the…
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Capernaum Movie Review: A flawed but essential portrait of childhood poverty
Capernaum is about two hours of near unrelenting bleakness, but it’s the kind of bleakness that’s also a mostly intelligent indictment of just how we all let it come to this. The opening scene is hard enough, as we see…
May the Devil Take You is a Satisfying, Gruesome Tribute to Haunted House Chillers
Though perhaps best known here in the West for his contributions to horror anthology films like The ABCs of Death (2012) and V/H/S/2 (2013), Indonesian director Timo Tjahjanto has steadily made a name for himself as one of the rising…
This Is Us 3×07 Review: “Sometimes” Takes Us Back in Time
“Sometimes” took us back to the beginning of Rebecca and Jack’s story together and to the start of many of their firsts. We saw the first time they went on a road trip, the first time they slept together, the…
The Romanoffs 1×05 Review: “Bright and High Circle”
Watching the latest episode of The Romanoffs, “Bright and High Circle,” feels akin to touching a hot stove after weeks of letting your hand hover close to the coils. I didn’t want it, but here it is, Matthew Weiner addressing…
Album Review: Yoko Ono – “Warzone”
Yoko Ono is 85 years-old, and has absolutely nothing to prove as a human being. She’s made four decades worth of music, acted in a number of different television shows and films, and of course, married one of the…
The Romanoffs 1×03 Review: “House of Special Purpose”
If it isn’t evident based on the exceptional rollout of The Romanoffs by Amazon, Matthew Weiner is a big believer in letting episodes breathe by releasing them weekly. While Mad Men was on the air, the show became infamous for…