Does this Sort-of Sequel Live Up?
DIRECTED BY DAN TRACHTENBERG/2016
Cloverfield is a 2008 Sci-fi film that I didn’t particularly care for, but has been misreme...
The Long Away Sequel That No One Really Asked For
DIRECTOR: BEN STILLER/2016
Zoolander 2 is much less a movie and much more a party you don’t really want to...
It's Like A 15 Year-Old Doing An Impression of a Middle-Aged Guy Doing An Impression Of A 15 Year-Old
DIRECTOR: TIM MILLER/2016
Deadpool is a movie about a cha...
Ten Movies You Have To See. Have To.
I don’t really watch that many movies. Well, to your average Joe who has kids and a wife and job where they wear a tie to ...
A Dazzling Display Of Doomed Romance
DIRECTOR: TODD HAYNES/2016
Todd Haynes’ newest film is remarkable by the way it is both a lush period piece along with bei...
How Actively Should You See Part 5?
DIRECTED BY GREGORY PLOTKIN/2015
I have defended the Paranormal Activity films in the past, and to different exte...
Scream-maker Dead at 76
This past weekend, not just the horror film community but the popular culture and world proper lost a good one. Many might not associat...
His Career Is Like A Box Of Chocolates
“Do you think he knows that this is by far his most important work, that it will go on to outshine everything else he’...
Musician Biopic, Streaming on Netflix
DIRECTED BY LIZ GARBUS
To call Nina Simone the Forrest Gump of music would be a very lazy act of film criticism. Yet...
Anthology Gone Wild!
DIRECTED BY DAMIAN SZIFRON/SPANISH/2015
Wild Tales can best be described as Quentin Tarantino directing episodes of The Twilight Zone i...
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.
