The Goods: Film Reviews
Goodie Bag is a new, possibly recurring format of collected capsule reviews on a theme. Goodie Bag selections are all candidates for future full-length reviews. If you have any feedback on this format or preferences for what kinds of reviews I publish, please let me know in a comment or by emailing me at danstalcup@gmail.com.
There’s no experience quite like falling in love while you’re young, and in the late 2000s and early 2010s, it was cinema that stole my heart.
Few movies in the history of the medium have been more relegated to the “film school” shelf than Battleship Potemkin:
Phantom of the Opera might be the most adapted horror story this side of Dracula.
It has become a tradition for me to put off writing these Annual Recaps approximately half the following year.
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.
Clarence Brown is one of Hollywood’s great success stories you’ve probably never heard of:
The year 2025 was not a particular shining beacon for cinema in my eyes
Has it really been a whole year?
“The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
–W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming,” 1919