Let Me In

For the foreseeable future, I will be contributing regular pieces for my friend Sasha James' blog The Final Girl Project . Compared to t...

Sucker Punch

Zack Synder's latest tribute to slow motion, Sucker Punch , tries so hard to be cool the director might as well have put sunglasses over...

Paul

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's screenplay for Paul reads like the sort of film their characters from Spaced would write. But then, apart...

Déjà Vu: You've Never Seen Something Quite Like This Before

My review for Tony Scott's masterpiece, Déjà Vu , is now up at Cinelogue. A digital version of Vertigo , Scott's film probes issues ...

Red Riding Hood

Walking out of Red Riding Hood , I felt a total emptiness in my soul. I could not rage at the absurdity of the story, the effrontery of its ...

Carpenter's Tools: Escape from L.A.

[Note: This is a stupefyingly belated entry in my John Carpenter retrospective, which I intended to go all the way through his canon but cou...

Ulysses, Chapter Six: Hades

Sometimes, despite my best effort to get as close a reading as possible, I find myself zipping through a book, so caught up in its narrative...

Ulysses, Chapter Five: The Lotus Eaters

Well, dear readers, we move from the waste management system to the playground. Yes, where the digestive system formed the anatomical refere...

Ulysses, Chapter Four: Calypso

Each chapter of Ulysses comes with its own corresponding color for the imagery, and the "Calypso" episode filters its description...

The Darjeeling Limited (& Hotel Chevalier)

In his video essay for the film, critic Matt Zoller Seitz calls The Darjeeling Limited "Wes Anderson's 2001 ." It is an apt d...

Ulysses, Chapter Three: Proteus

Oh, how quickly I run into trouble with Ulysses . Already delayed an unforgivable amount of time by piled-up schoolwork, I returned to the ...