Wheeler, Oregon.

A goal of mine for 2022 is to finish a book a week. It's not going great, but still I persevere. Below are some thoughts on those boo...

A goal of mine for 2022 is to finish a book a week. So far, I have done so several weeks in the year. Below are some thoughts on those boo...

Mark Lanegan died today. Like most news, it came to me first as somebody's commentary, my friend Ian posting "rest easy" or ...

A goal of mine for 2022 is to finish a book a week. So far, I have done so nearly every week of the year. Below are some thoughts on thos...

The metacommentary about the current state of horror movies in  Scream  (2022, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett) is fun, yet also dis...

1.      Annette  (2021, Leos Carax) 2.      The French Dispatch  (2021, Wes Anderson) 3.      Halloween Kills  (2021, David Gordon Green) 4....

I’d overlooked  Candyman  (1992, Bernard Rose) maybe because before  Scream  (1996, Wes Craven) I didn’t know of any decent early 90s horror...

Paul Thomas Anderson has maybe three distinct phases of his career so far. First there’s the style of his early period, when his films were ...

Out of the Blue  (1980, Dennis Hopper) is a punk Sirkian melodrama with the kind of vitality that’s found in so very few films. It grips you...