Spend Some Time With a Hodgepodge of Sophisticated Savages
DIRECTED BY SALLY POTTER/2018
Sally Potter’s new film, The Party, starts with a door opening. It ...
2017 was a Good Time at the Movies
This was a pretty incredible year for film, so narrowing down a top ten, much less a number one, was a pretty hard task. Thi...
Shining a Light on the Greatest Cinematographer Working Today.
Roger Deakins is widely considered to be the best cinematographer working today. He is an artis...
Some Heavy Gore and Violence, and Some Heavy Subjects, For the Christmastime
DIRECTED BY CRAIG ANDERSON/2016
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 17, 2017/ARTSPLOITATION FI...
The miracle of the movies has long been said to be not the way they wrangle and conform all preexisting means of artistic expression into one mass medium, b...
A Sloppy But Informative Documentary About a Worthy Subject
Directed by Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana/ 2017
Street Date: October 24, 2017/Kino L...
An Imperfect Horror Movie that You May Find Interesting
DIRECTED BY ANDREW WIEST/ 2017
Tom Doherty (Colton Christensen) arrives to restore a lighthouse on a...
Groundhog Day Meets Scream
DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER LANDON/2017
Tree (Jessica Rothe) is a self-centered college student who wakes up in the bed of a man she...
Check Your Status Into This Fine Little Movie
DIRECTED BY MIKE WHITE/2017
Brad’s Status is one of those films that on paper has elements that will turn you ...
One of the Most Insane Theater Experiences
DIRECTED BY DARREN ARONOFSY/2017
mother! is a film that is interesting for the reason that my emotions and respon...
Paul has written about politics and baseball for other outlets in the past. Besides cinema, he cites baseball, music and fitness as other key passions in his life. His reviews are humorous and sometimes cutting, aiming to get at central themes of any given movie. For him, the value of film lies in the way the art form can use plot, vision and sound to create stories of flawed, relatable people that are riveting and allegories for deeper things.
