As Controversial as he is Celebrated, the Spanish Auteur Continues to Live up to his Reputation
One of my favorite facts about Pedro Almodóvar, aside from his ...
A Monster With Seoul
DIRECTED BY NACHO VIGALONDO/2016
At the moment, COLOSSAL is playing in only two theaters here in LA, and I don’t know that it’s getting a ...
Gotta Dance!
42nd STREET (1933)
I've chosen to spotlight movie musicals this March, a subject as big and broad and boisterous as the classic era of Hollywo...
Connery, Sean Connery.
How else to begin a round-up of the famed Irish/Scotsman's films on this, the month of his birth? Perhaps it's what's expected, and fo...
Despite Crash-Landing Its Biggest Character, This Star Trek Might Finally Have Achieved Lift-Off
“After the Show” is our spoiler-friendly way of talking about ...
The Visual Storyteller Finds Truth in the Lies... at 24 Frames per Second.
Controversial from his moment of relevance, filmmaker Brian De Palma's infamy is wel...
Once Upon A Time, In A Far Away Land…
An apology upfront for that oh so predictable opening line. Some might even so far as to call it “tired”. But really, I'm...
The Count, The Painter, His 500-Year-Old Wife, And His Lover
DIRECTED BY DAVID RÜHM/GERMAN/2014
After all these years, how many different ways can we honestly ...
Dinner Parties Are Murder
DIRECTOR: KARYAN KUSAMA/2016
If you’ve ever dreaded having to attend a dinner party, The Invitation provides a stiff dose of paranoia...
When You Wish Upon a (Neglected) Star...
An exercise in futility for cinephiles the world over is recalling the first movie you, the obsessive movie fan, ever...
After getting his money’s worth out of his film degree by working at Starbucks for seven years, David Strugar packed up and moved to LA to pursue screenwriting. He currently spends his time blogging, watching movies at Arclight Cinemas, and walking around his apartment in a feather boa complaining that the pictures have gotten too small for him.
