The Color Purple has been through so many layers of adaptation at this point that it’s practically a game of telephone.
Categories
The Color Purple (2023)
Category: Review
Categories
Remote Control (1989)
For whatever reason, the 1980s remain an endless well of bizarre and inventive thrillers, the kind that surprise you when you find them playing on cable at 1 AM or on a muted bar TV.
Categories
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Cabin in the Sky deserves to be remembered as more than a curiosity of representation, though that context inevitably shapes how you approach it.
Categories
Phantom of the Opera (2004)
There is a paradox at the heart of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s empire that Joel Schumacher’s 2004 Phantom of the Opera makes impossible to ignore
Categories
Cats (2019)
There’s a case to be made that the true line of demarcation between the before-times and the after-times is not March 2020, when the world shut down as COVID spread and quarantine began, but a few months earlier, when Cats arrived in theaters.
Categories
Not Just a Goof (2024)
You’re not going to get an unbiased review from me on this one.
Categories
Train Dreams (2025)
Train Dreams tells the story of a man’s eighty years of life in a hundred minutes.
Categories
The Secret Agent (2025)
I find that the opening scene of The Secret Agent is a pretty good lens into the overall experience of watching the film.
Categories
Nouvelle Vague (2025)
Among the great and influential directors of the past thirty years, Richard Linklater is the one with the least neurosis.
Categories
Mary Poppins (1964)
There is a version of this review where I try to explain, analytically, why Mary Poppins works.