We Plead Guilty to Loving These Movies!
What’s the movie that you love that always gets the response, “Really? That one?” Did you think Chappie was thought p...
Father of the Modern Zombie Dead at 77.
Jim Tudor
"Start thinking of new ways to kill people. We're going to make another zombie movie."
So went the initia...
OKJA Is a Nice Mix Of What Bong Joon-Ho can do as a Filmmaker
DIRECTED BY BONG JOON-HO/2017
OKJA, the newest film from Bong Joon-Ho, feels like a nice culmi...
Ben Wheatley's return to comedy. His return to fun.
DIRECTED BY BEN WHEATLEY/2017
After High-Rise, Ben Wheatley’s last film, which was a dense and complicat...
A Film With as Much Heartbreak as it has Charm
DIRECTED BY HIROKAZU KORE-EDA/JAPANESE/2017
Most films, and most avenues of art, tend to be cynical and criti...
Kristen Stewart Gives the Performance of her Career
Directed by: Oliver Assayas/2017
Personal Shopper is about a spiritual medium named Maureen (Kristen Ste...
And the Relationship of Cleo 5 to 7 to Richard Linklater
While watching Agnes Varda’s 1962 masterpiece Cleo from 5 to 7 recently as part of a local St. L...
How Deep is the Well for "Wellness"?
DIRECTED BY GORE VERBINSKI/2017
A Cure For Wellness is a movie that had mediocre written all over it from its inception...
Park Chan-wook Returns with an Enticing Historical Drama
DIRECTED BY PARK CHAN-WOOK/KOREAN & JAPANESE/2016
In the mid-aught, South Korean auteur Park Ch...
Sometimes the Past Interferes with the Future
DIRECTED BY MARCIN WRONA/2016
A lot of the press around the new Polish horror film Demon is surrounded by the fac...
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.
