The Goods: Film Reviews

One mental exercise I sometimes play with certain actors and directors:

I spent most of 2013 listening to Bruce Springsteen albums, and one thing I noticed is that his earliest records are confessional and immediate even when he’s inventing stories.

Dan and Brian catch up with neo-noir The Kid Detective, a longtime watchlist entry for Dan.

Hokum is what I like to call a line graph movie, by which I mean you could chart my engagement with it as a literal line graph, peaks and valleys neatly labeled.

Let me get my one real gripe out of the way up front, because it’s just about the only complaint I’ve got.