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movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

January 22, 2020

The Turning: Dreaming is Free, by Scott Nye

Interpretations of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw are as varied as there are readers, and part of the brilliance of its conceit is that the central question – whether the ghosts in it are real, or an extension...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

January 22, 2020

Color Out of Space: Curse Broken, by David Bax

There have been multiple film adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft’s 1927 short story “The Colour Out of Space,” from 1965’s Die, Monster, Die! to three separate movies since 2008, including cult director Richard Stanley’s anticipated return to filmmaking after being fired...

david bax / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

January 16, 2020

Weathering with You: Cloudy but Warm, by David Bax

Imagine you went on a first date and you got along famously. Except, at one point during the evening, your companion made a troubling offhand comment–a dislike for animals, maybe, or a fondness for Ben Shapiro–that you tried to brush...

movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

January 15, 2020

Bad Boys for Life: Settling Down, by Scott Nye

Bad Boys II, surely one of the most grotesque, irresponsible, and overindulgent films to ever come out of the big-budget Hollywood franchise machine, was in its own sick way a masterpiece of a form that should never have such a...

alexander miller / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

January 15, 2020

VHYes: Channel Surfing, by Alexander Miller

When I was about eight or nine years old, I was channel surfing and much to my surprise I saw “comic store Craig” (he earned this nickname because he owned a local comic shop; clever, right?) sitting on a stool...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

January 9, 2020

Like a Boss: Blemish Prone, by David Bax

At the advance screening of Like a Boss, my guest and I were each given a free glass of rosé to sip while enjoying the movie. You could, I suppose, call this bribery but, to be more charitable, you could...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

January 9, 2020

Les Miserables: Jour d’Entrainement, by David Bax

Of the many times Ladj Ly’s Les Misérables is reminiscent of other, better things, the most exciting is the opening sequence, which, with its Steadicam roaming through young bodies in motion soundtracked by droning music, is like a more proletarian...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 23, 2019

Just Mercy: Long Term, by David Bax

After a touching prologue in which a law student and intern named Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) nervously makes his first visit to a death row inmate, Destin Daniel Cretton’s Just Mercy quickly jumps ahead to a more seasoned Stevenson,...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

December 19, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Tunes of Glory, by David Bax

Ronald Neame’s Tunes of Glory (out now on Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection) is a movie about soldiers and thus has plenty of the stern, rough-hewn masculinity you might expect from the sub-genre. But, as the title suggests, it also...

movies / reviews / Theatrical Review / tyler smith / tyler's reviews

December 19, 2019

Cats: The Theatre of Lost Souls, by Tyler Smith

It begins with horror. As strange-looking creatures skulk out of the shadows, their forms coming into sharper focus, our eyes widen as we begin to understand what we’re seeing. Nightmarish human-feline hybrids begin to emerge from the darkness, laughing and...

Category: reviews

The Turning: Dreaming is Free, by Scott Nye

Color Out of Space: Curse Broken, by David Bax

Weathering with You: Cloudy but Warm, by David Bax

Bad Boys for Life: Settling Down, by Scott Nye

VHYes: Channel Surfing, by Alexander Miller

Like a Boss: Blemish Prone, by David Bax

Les Miserables: Jour d’Entrainement, by David Bax

Just Mercy: Long Term, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Tunes of Glory, by David Bax

Cats: The Theatre of Lost Souls, by Tyler Smith

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