I was thrilled to be a guest on Amy Hensarling’s great podcast! Find out why I love movies about horrible men, especially when they’re made by female filmmakers. Watch our conversation (we’re real people! Who knew!) on Lina Wertmuller’s Seven Beauties and Jane Campion’s In The Cut.
Great to rewatch this movie and see it’s as good as I remembered it. Sure, it mighta been better if they never even revealed the serial killer and just let it be a…
I wrote a new article for BW/DR all about Evil Dead II, a movie that gets written about all the time but I decided to challenge myself to analyze it from a different angle. Specifically, I wrote about how it feels like a parallel to Sam Raimi’s filmmaking journey from true indie to professional. Also the genius of Bruce Campbell’s perfect comedic timing. Here’s an excerpt:
What makes Evil Dead II so sublime is its arch sense of self-awareness. Where the…
One of the best poliziotteschi films I’ve seen in terms of great soundtrack, engaging characters, ridiculous violence, and satisfying revenge. There’s also some genuinely awesome camerawork in this, some legit hand to hand combat scenes that are faked but insane looking, and one wild car stunt where you watch shards of broken glass fly into our main characters eyes for like several rotations.
Fabio Testi is surprisingly great as Inspector Nico, a Dirty Harry style inspector who is out there…
I just don’t get the appeal of making something so specifically miserable. Like why take a horrible situation, watching your parent die, and plus it up by spending two hours with three awful people who hate each other?
This coulda easily been a nice little off Broadway play I’m sure but as a film it’s fairly intolerable. Static and gratingly stagy — it’s all dull confessional monologues that end in shitty bickering. Everybody is talking to each other but nobody…
This isn't the story about people who drift apart because of politics, this is the story of a woman with convictions (whether you agree with them or not) and intelligence, and a wuss-ass (drop dead beautiful) white boy who has never had to care about or fight for anything in his life.
They're initially attracted to each other because they each have something the other wishes they could possess. For Redford, Streisand represents the exciting world of fringe living, of…
