November 2024 Reviews

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

Letterboxd: The Apprentice, Maria, and The Last Showgirl.

Seattle Film Blog: Look at the Stars, Look How They Shine for You in Andrea Arnold's Bird with Nykiya Adams, Lipstick Cherry All Over the Lens: Christina Hornisher’s Tinseltown Tale Hollywood 90028 [three-disc set], Kasi Lemmons, Eve's Bayou, and the Pleasures and Pains of Black Cinema in the 1990s, Cucalorus 30 Dispatch #1: Alexi Wasser's Messy, Cucalorus 30 Dispatch 2: David Fortune's Astounding Debut Color Book, Cucalorus 30 Dispatch #3: AJ Goes to the Dog Park, Anna Comes Home, Duino, Familiar Touch, 

and Gia Coppola's The Last Showgirl with Pamela Anderson and a Down-to-Earth Dave Bautista.

 

Image from The Hollywood Reporter (Nykiya Adams in Bird).

October 2024 Reviews

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

Seattle Film Blog: Willard Huyck and Gloria's Katz's 1973 Messiah of Evil: Drive-In Fare with Artistic Flare and Demon Pond: An Aqueous, Electrifying, Gender-Bending Folk Horror from 1970s Japan.

Seattle Film Critics Society: provided an introduction for the John Hartl Pacific Northwest Spotlight Award tribute to Kyle MacLachlan.

 

Video Librarian: In the Rearview and You Are Not Alone.

 

Messiah of Evil Blu-ray cover from Dangerous Minds. 

September 2024 Reviews

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

 

 

 

Letterboxd: Sweetheart Deal.

Seattle Film Blog: Don't Mess Around with the Cemetery Man 

and Trans R&B Singer Jackie Shane Shines Again in Painterly Doc Portrait Any Other Way.

Seattle Film Critics Society: I contributed a quote to the press release for the John Hartl PNW Spotlight/Kyle MacLachlan event.

SIFF: Moderated the Q&A with the team--director Elisa Levine, editor Brittany Kaplan, and producer Peggy Case--behind Sweetheart Deal.

Video Librarian: 20,000 Species of Bees and Coma.

Jackie Shane image from Queer History Month.

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.