Perhaps the strangest thing about the latest film from French genre director Xavier Gens (Frontier(s), The Divide) is that it almost works. Almost. Ambitious, bizarre, and strangely philosophical, his creature-driven follow-up to 2017’s grim – and widely dismissed – The…
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Operation Finale Movie Review: This failed mission leads to some winning performances
Operation Finale knows the story it wants to tell, but little else beyond that. The story part is made pretty easy since it is based on real events and real people. Where the film truly struggles is trying to keep…
Book Review: Loose Units by Paul F. Verhoeven
I read the first two-thirds of Australian writer, broadcaster, and entertainer Paul F. Verhoeven’s stirring-but-not-slipshod, sentimental-but-not-schmaltzy debut book Loose Units like rich people eat dinner: in perfect portions, prix fixe-style, each course more delicious and eye-widening than the last. Like…
The Wife Movie Review: Glenn Close’s spectacular performance can’t elevate regressive clichés
The Wife, despite its familiar packaging, believes its method of delivery is substantially more clever than it is. A film whose very title thinks it’s doing something new and subversive, it results in little more than delivering a message as regressive…
Interview: YUNGBLUD (Warped Tour 2018)
It’s March 2018, and I’m checking my email when the name “YUNGBLUD” catches my eye. I open the press release and see a photo of a laughing British youth with bright pink socks. “Captivating,” Wonderland calls him; “thrilling,” says NME. I…
Album Review: Parliament – “Medicaid Fraud Dogg”
The best band of the 1970s – the only close rival I can think of is Neil Young & Crazy Horse, who match them in depth of expression if not in range – was Parliament/Funkadelic, a.k.a. the P-Funk collective, the…
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Movie Review: Lily James Shines in Cozy 1940s Romantic Drama
If one didn’t know any better, they might mistake The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society for a Fall Out Boy or Panic! At the Disco song — one from the bands’ hypothetical folk-driven albums that would come later…