Mar 05 Oscar Clickbait "It's not my first rodeo, but I will be brief. I will not be egregious, I promise." Mar 5, 2025 13 min read
Feb 05 The 'Don't Know Whether to Laugh or Cry' Issue "Either better than Citizen Kane or the worst piece of shit that anyone ever loaded on the projector." Feb 5, 2025 13 min read
Jan 24 New Year, New Newsletter “If I could just request that you refrain from killing each other. And don't kill the actors, either." Jan 24, 2025 12 min read
Dec 18 The End: Tried So Hard and Got So Far Joshua Oppenheimer's Tilda Swinton climate apocalypse musical isn't nearly as much fun as it should be, nor as arresting as his previous work. Dec 18, 2024 11 min read
Dec 03 Tongues Untied: LGBTQ+ People Aren't Going Back "End the silence, baby. We can make a serious revolution, together." Dec 3, 2024 8 min read
Nov 20 Intercepted: Speak, Know Evil A documentary of Russian soldiers' candid phone calls, premiering at a crucial turning point, prompts the question: when does news become history? Nov 20, 2024 7 min read
Nov 12 Virginia Film Festival, Part 1: Day of Future Past My first of two days at the Virginia Film Festival, on the eve of the 2024 election, was full of movies grappling with historical trauma. Nov 12, 2024 8 min read