September Film Reviews

These are the reviews

and other projects I'm 

working on this month.

Cucalorus Film Festival: member of the 2026 narrative features judging committee.

Seattle Film Blog: Christiane F. [Criterion Collection Blu-ray].

The Stranger: Boorman and the Devil.

 

Video Librarian: Anatomy of a Fall and Mr. Nobody Against Putin.

Unassigned: Barbarella [Blu-ray set], The Bat [Blu-ray], The Betrayal [Blu-ray], Blood Money: $10,000 Blood Money, Find a Place to Die, Vengeance Is Mine, and Matalo! [four Blu-ray set], Borsalino [Blu-ray], Desperate Teenage Lovedolls & Lovedolls Superstar: The Complete 4K Remastered Collection [Blu-ray], Fighting Back [Blu-ray], Flaming Brothers [Blu-ray], The Iron-Fisted Monk [Blu-ray], Last House on the Left [Blu-ray/UHD set], New First of Fury [Blu-ray], The Prodigal Son [Blu-ray], Savage Guns: Four Classic Westerns, Vol 3: El Puro, Four of the Apocalypse, I Want Him Dead, and Wrath of the Wind [four Blu-ray set], and That Most Important Thing: Love.

Poster image from the IMDb via Yellow Veil Pictures.

August 2026 Reviews

These are the reviews and other projects I'm working 

on this month.

Cucalorus Film Festival: member of the 2026 narrative features judging committee.

Northwest Film Forum: moderator of a Q&A with director/editor/DP Adam Sekuler after a screening of The Flamingo.

Seattle 48 Hour Film Project: member of the 2026 judging committee with Kris Swenson, Leslie Daniels, and Chase Hutchinson.

Seattle Film Blog: Original Maverick: James Garner, 1928-2014, Advance to Paradise with Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Murder Mystery The Samurai and The Prisoner, A Journey into a Mysterious Past with Carla Simón's Semiautobiographical Romería, and My Need to Possess You Has Consumed My Soul: On Eckhart Schmidt’s 1982 Der Fan.

The Stranger: If ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ Gets Too Real, You Can Always Turn It Off.

 

Video Librarian: An American Pastoral, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story, Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story, and Eternal You.

Image from Everyman (Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson).

July 2026 Reviews

These are the reviews and other projects I'm working 

on this month.

Cucalorus Film Festival: member of the 2026 narrative feature judging committee.

Seattle Film Blog: Lilian T. Mehrel's Sweet, Funny Directorial Debut, Honeyjoon, with a Superb Amira Casar, Stranger Flashback: Gianfranco Rosi's Golden Bear-Winning Documentary, Fire at Sea, Remains Heartbreaking and Harrowing, All I've Got Is a Photograph: Looking Back at Lisa Cholodenko's 1998 Debut High Art, There's a Chick Who's Paid to Be My Slave: Sex and Scams in Georgia Bernstein's Night Nurse, and Not Everybody Does It But Everybody Should: In I Want Your Sex, Gregg Araki Returns to Give the Office Comedy a BDSM Makeover.

Front Row & Backstage: reference to my Stranger/Line Out preview of A Band Called Death from the Wayback Machine.  

The Stranger: The World Does Not Need A 7-Hour Odyssey.

Video Librarian: Every Little Thing and Soundtrack to Coup d’Etat.

Image from Two Coats of Paint (Radha Mitchell and Ally Sheedy).

June 2026 Reviews

These are the reviews and other projects I'm working on this month.

Cucalorus Film Festival: member of the 2026 narrative feature judging committee.  

Seattle Film Blog: I'm Tense and Nervous and I Can't Relax: On Cindy Sherman's Underappreciated Office Killer, Silas Howard and Harry Dodge Put a Queer Spin on the Buddy Comedy in Charming San Francisco Picaresque By Hook or by Crook, A Restless Spirit on an Endless Flight: Canadian Filmmaker Avalon Fast’s Enchanting CAMP, and revamped and/or revived versions of C.R.A.Z.Y., That Man: Peter Berlin, Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, Milk, and Small Town Gay Bar.

Video Librarian: All We Imagine as Light.

Image from MoMA (Carol Kane in Office Killer).

May 2026 Reviews

These are the reviews and other 

projects I'm working on this month.

Crypticon: Moderator for 50th Anniversary of 1976 Horror, 40th Anniversary of 1986 Horror and panelist on Good Boy! (Pets in Horror).

Cucalorus Film Festival: member of the 2026 narrative feature judging committee.  

 

Good Docs: Quote from my Video Librarian review of Perfect Strangers.

Seattle Film Blog: SIFF 2026 Dispatch #1: Gothic Horror, Māori-Style, in Taratoa Stappard's Assured Mārama, SIFF 2026 Dispatch #2: Brief Words on Case 137, Drunken Noodles, and Franz (as in Kafka), SIFF 2026 Dispatch #3: Aberdeen-Born Actor/Director Mia Moore Puts a Lo-Fi, Queer Spin on Sci-Fi in Her Debut, Again Again, SIFF 2026 Dispatch #4: Music Heals in Radioheart: The Drive & Times of DJ Kevin Cole, SIFF 2026 Dispatch #5: Times of Trouble (and Sparks of Joy) in Body Blow and Valentina, SIFF Dispatch #6: Post-Millennial Mockumentary Meets '70s Surrealism in Lady, SIFF Dispatch #7: Music, Movement, and Community in Sky Hopinka's Powwow People, and Lost and Found Family-Oriented Film Reviews: Graduation and Rachel Getting Married, and Bob Fosse, Lenny Bruce, Honey and Kitty Bruce, and Fosse's Bleak as Hell Biopic Lenny.

Video Librarian: Green Is the New Red and The Librarians.

Image from Altered Innocence / IMDb.  

April 2026 Reviews

These are the reviews
and other projects I'm
on working on this month.

Seattle Film Blog: The Stranger: François Ozon's Beautiful Take on an Ugly Crime--and an Enigmatic Criminal, When I Paint My Masterpiece: Steven Soderbergh's Sly Two-Hander The Christophers, Times of Trouble for Anne Hathaway and Michaela Cole in David Lowery's Mother Mary, Bend Me, Shape Me, Anyway You Want Me: Angelo Madsen Takes on Modern Primitive Pioneer Fakir Musafar in A Body to Live In, and revamped versions of Histoire(s) du Cinema, and You Me Them.

 

Seattle Film Society: In Focus screening and Q&A with SJ Chiro.

Video Librarian: Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round.

Image from Gaumont via Wikipedia.

March 2026 Reviews

These are 

the reviews and other projects I'm working on 

this month.

In Their Own League: A quote from my review of Karyn Kusama's 2018 Destroyer. 

 

Seattle Film Blog: Jenny Agutter's Schoolgirl Gets a Sentimental Education in David Greene's I Start Counting, Surveys of French and Spanish Horror, Lost and Found Film Reviews: The Orphanage, Not Forgotten, and The Skin I Live In, and Born Innocent Pays Homage to Redd Kross, "The Most Important Band in the World."

Video Librarian: 3000 Nights.

Image of Redd Kross from Tony Molina / Variety.