Sicario
Follow the link to read my review of Sicario for the film mag INDIEKINO
Love Hotel
I wrote a review for the documentary Love Hotel in indiekino, a film magazine focusing on arthouse cinema in Berlin.
The Weekend 5
- Amy Nicholson on laughing at old movies.
- The history of U.S. pop via 12 fictional acts.
- What movies taught Tara
Ison about sex and vulnerability.
- Trailer of the Week:
Jonathan Demme’s Ricki and the Flash
The Weekend 5
- 18 important film movements every movie buff
should know.
- On how ‘Flawless’ became a feminist
declaration.
- Acting out: on the reflexivity of actors in
crisis.
- A definitive ranking of every Kurt Cobain movie
ever made.
- Trailer of the Week: Collin Schiffli’s Animals
The Weekend 5
- I watch therefore I am: seven movies that teach
us key philosophy lessons.
- The unbearable whiteness of indie music.
- An article on the Native Americans who left the
set of a racist Adam Sandler film.
- 11 bands that split just as they were becoming
successful.
- Trailer of the Week: Bill Pohlad’s Love & Mercy
The Duke of Burgundy (2014)
4 out of 5
A bright eyed woman named Evelyn (Chiara D’Anna) rings the doorbell of a countryside mansion. After waiting on the doorstep for a few minutes, the stern, older Cynthia (Sidse Babett Knudsen) curtly tells her she is late and bosses her around in an impossibly rude way. First glances are deceiving, however, as the two are embroiled in a complicated relationship.
The Weekend 5
- The BFI made a list of 25 great female film critics.
- 18 yearsafter its first episode aired, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is still revolutionary.
- Notes from
Sleater-Kinney first-timers.
- How to make
a good horror movie: 9 lessons from the genre’s latest triumphs.
- Trailer of the Week: Maxime Giroux’s Felix and Meira
The Weekend 5
- All 109 Sleater-Kinney songs, ranked.
- The Telegraph’s Horatia Harrod remembers legendary documentary director Albert Maysles who died this week.
- On the rudeness of the phrase “guess you had to be there.”
- A wonderful blow-by-blow of Nicholas Roeg’s film Don’t Look Now.
- Trailer of the Week: Jonas Alexander Arnby’s When Animals Dream
The Weekend 5
- A New Yorker article about composing for Hollywood.
- The breakfast club debuted 30 years ago inFebruary. This is what some Hollywood writers had to say about it.
- R.I.P. Parks and Rec. Here are 10 pivotal
episodes of one of the more compassionate, optimistic shows around.
- What really goes on during film and TV sex
scenes.
- Trailer of the Week: Ron Nyswaner’s Shes The
Best Thing In It
STBTII SXSW TRAILER from She’s The Best Thing In It on Vimeo.
The Weekend 5
- A list of 30 essential German films.
- Oscars’ snub to “world cinema” promotes a very narrow-minded point of view.
- 28 romantic cinematic gestures that are actually creepy (and there are plenty more where that came from).
- Neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks wrote avery touching op-ed on learning he has terminal cancer.
- Trailer of the Week: Joel Potrykus’s Buzzard