Movie Reviews

Feb
07
Blurbing For The Weekend 2/7/25

Blurbing For The Weekend 2/7/25

Catching up on the popular thrillers of 2024, with three I'm not entirely unimpressed by.
5 min read
Jan
24
Blurbing For The Weekend 1/24/25

Blurbing For The Weekend 1/24/25

Rewatching indulgent, violent, cinematic fever dreams of America in crisis that ricocheted forth from the anodyne ‘80s. Not David Lynch movies. Die Hards. I need a minute before I get to Lynch.
8 min read
Jan
17
Blurbing For The Weekend 1/17/25

Blurbing For The Weekend 1/17/25

Old rock that sounds new, new rock that sounds old, intergenerational horrors in rewatchable movies…
5 min read
Dec
20
Blurbing For The Weekend 12/20/24

Blurbing For The Weekend 12/20/24

Some tangents about angels and rats I left out of my Sonic Youth album guide, and some movie blurbs regarding apocalyptic action and avant-garde music.
5 min read
Dec
13
Blurbing For The Weekend 12/13/24

Blurbing For The Weekend 12/13/24

Coens Bros classics and crappy weird horror movies. If there's anything else on Criterion...I'm too lazy to watch it.
5 min read
Oct
18
Blurbing For The Weekend 10/18/24

Blurbing For The Weekend 10/18/24

On a romantic miniseries about middle-aged murder and some new-to-me spooky stuff.
6 min read
Sep
27
Blurbing For The Weekend 9/27/24

Blurbing For The Weekend 9/27/24

My thoughts on five movies I watched on streaming recently. Or eight or nine, depending how many words equals a thought.
6 min read
Aug
11
I Saw Trap!

I Saw Trap!

I swear, I didn't mean this to be a treatise on all things Shyamalan. Sorry!
7 min read
Jul
28
I Saw Longlegs! Movies Are Back!

I Saw Longlegs! Movies Are Back!

Well, kind of. Or at least I was back for the first time in almost two years.
6 min read
Feb
15
Boy, Did I Hate Beau Is Afraid!

Boy, Did I Hate Beau Is Afraid!

I guess you're not my favorite post-feminist director anymore, after you make a 3-hour Buñuel for incels.
7 min read