August 2024 Reviews

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

Cucalorus Film Festival: screening committee member.

Seattle Film Blog: Georgian-Swedish Filmmaker Levan Akin's Crossing: A Procedural With a Few Twists, Charles R. Cross (1957-2024): Seattle Music Writer and Art House Film Aficionado, We Got That Attitude: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains with a Fiery Diane Lane, and Rainer Fassbinder's Final Film, Querelle: In Which Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves.

We Heart Music: contributor Vu mentions my All Music Guide biography in this 2007 post about All Girl Summer Fun Band.

Video Librarian: Rami Younis & Sarah Ema Friedland's Lyd.

Note: I started writing about the new Severin Films Cemetery Man Blu-ray in August, but didn't wrap up my review before the end of the month. It will appear in September--I just have too much to say!

Cemetery Man (Anna Falchi) image from Rotten Tomatoes.

July 2024 Reviews

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

 

Cucalorus Film Festival: screening committee member (I rated 25 films)

KNKX: I'm quoted in this piece about the state of Scarecrow Video.

Seattle Film Blog: A Dazzling Mia Goth Will Stop at Nothing to Achieve Her Silver Screen Dreams in MaXXXine, Bram Stoker and Thomas Harris Collide in Oz Perkins' Serial Killer Thriller Longlegs, Chinese Filmmaker Wei Shujun's Richly Atmospheric Noir Puzzler Only the River Flows, and Cemetery Man and The Criterion Collection: Querelle [Blu-rays].

Video Librarian: The Sales Girl and In Our Day.

Image: Hollywood Reporter (Mia Goth and Halsey).

June 2024 Reviews

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

Cucalorus Film Festival: screening committee member.

Letterboxd: Andrew McCarthy's Brats.

Seattle Film Blog: Mute, Brain-Damaged, and Sexy: On Juanma Bajo Ulloa’s 1993 Thriller The Dead Mother [Blu-ray], Stranger Flashback: Paul Williams at the Egyptian with Director Stephen Kessler, A Hyper-Masculine Subculture Roars to Life in Jeff Nichols' Biker Club Exposé The Bikeriders, Whatever This World Can Give to Me: Annie Baker's Janet Planet with Julianne Nicholson, and a revamped version of a 2006 interview with Keith Fulton.

Video Librarian: Lourdes and Lee Chang-dong's Oasis.

Image: The Hollywood Reporter (Austin Butler and Jodie Comer in The Bikeriders / 20th Century Studios / Courtesy Everett Collection).

May 2024 Reviews

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

 

MUBI/Grand Illusion Cinema: Moderator for an interview with filmmakers Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross and the cast of Gasoline Rainbow. Full details here.

 

Rock and Roll Globe: Catching Fire: Anita Pallenberg in Her Own Words.

 

Seattle Film Blog: SIFF 2024 Dispatch #1: Dawn Porter Profiles an R&B Dynamo in Luther: Never Too Much, SIFF 2024 Dispatch #2: The Primevals and Tony, Shelly, and the Magic Light, SIFF 2024 Dispatch #3: Battling Bugs and More in Daniel McCabe's Grasshopper Republic, SIFF 2024 Dispatch #4: Staring at Computer Screens in Red Rooms and Sebastian, I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Destroyed by Nickelodeon and the WB: On Jane Schoenbrun’s '90s-Damaged I Saw the TV Glow, and SIFF Dispatch #5: Marriages in Trouble in Banel & Adama and July Rhapsody

Video Librarian: Hugo [Blu-ray/UHD set] and Lee Chang-dong's Poetry. 

Catching Fire poster image from the IMDb.  

April 2024 Reviews

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

 

 

 

 

Rock and Roll Globe: Catching Fire: A New Documentary 

Presents Actress and Muse Anita Pallenberg in Her Own Words.

 

Seattle Film Blog: William Shatner in Lady Killer Mode: William Grefé's Low-Budget 1974 Thriller Impulse, I Feel Me Slippin' Away, I Wipe My Feelings Off: On the Combat Photographers of Civil War, Stranger Flashback: Air, Scorsese, and Méliès, and a revamped 

version of My Suicidal Sweetheart/Max and Grace. 

Video Librarian: Carlito's Way [Blu-ray/UHD set]

and Desperate Hours [Blu-ray] 

Image: Alamy/Financial Times (Kirsten Dunst in Civil War).

March 2024 Reviews

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

Letterboxd: Love Lies Bleeding.

Seattle Film Blog: Impulse [Blu-ray set], I Met Her in a Club Down in Old Soho: Drag-Revenge Thriller Femme with George MacKay, and revamped versions of Sidney Lumet's swan song Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and You're Gonna Miss Me.

Video Librarian: The Last Picture Show (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray set] and Stella Maris [Blu-ray set]

Image: Fangoria (William Shatner in Impulse).

February 2024 Reviews

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

McCourt Theater: Quote from Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes.

Oscilloscope Laboratories: Moderator for a Q&A with director Rachel Lambert at a screening of Sometimes I Think About Dying.  

Seattle Film Blog: Stranger Flashback: The Music and Movies of the L.A. Rebellion at Northwest Film Forum, Stranger Flashback: Beware of Mr. Baker, It's Just Me and the Boys: Isaac Julien's 1991 Queer-Punk Anthem Young Soul Rebels, Love Is a Sleigh Ride to Hell in Ethan Coen's Lesbian Crime Caper Drive-Away Dolls, and An Artist Puts Herself in Her Work in Robert Morgan's Stopmotion with Aisling Franciosi.

Video Librarian: Broken Mirrors [Blu-ray], The Last Island 

[Blu-ray], and The Swiss Conspiracy [Blu-ray].

Image: Hartford (Isaac Julien's Young Soul Rebels).