What a pleasure to sit in with my dear old friend Craig D. Lindsey on KPFT’s The Sour Hour. We piss and moan a bit about the Oscars and complain about the idiots in the Trump administration but mostly I just laugh at Craig’s rants. He calls me up about halfway through the show, after playing the Backstreet Boys song that was in Booty Call. – The Sour Hour, 02/28/2018
“The phrase conjures black-and-white visions of Venetian blinds and countless cigarettes, allegorically exposing male anxieties of powerlessness in a changing post-war world. The MFA’s ‘Femmes Fatales’ is a fine selection if you want to study advancing gender roles in genre cinema, and works just as well if you like to go to the movies to look at beautiful women.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 02/28/2018
ANNIHILATION * * * 1 / 2
Starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez and Oscar Isaac. Wriiten for the screen and directed by Alex Garland.
“In fact, Daniela Vega is so very good it’s impossible to watch A Fantastic Woman without wishing she’d been given more to do than just suffer. She wanders through the movie numbed with grief and absorbing abuse, which is compelling on a human level but dramatically monotonous. There aren’t exactly a lot of surprises here.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 02/23/2018
”There’s a clear post-Brexit anxiety bubbing under the proceedings, as we watch London’s upper crust devouring itself. None of these well-meaning, hyper-educated liberals have been able to see what’s been happening right under their noses. But beyond any political implications it’s just a pleasure to watch these performers ping-ponging off one another.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 02/21/2018
BLACK PANTHER * * * 1 / 2
Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira and Letitia Wright. Screenplay by Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole. Directed by Ryan Coogler. Continue reading
“Dafoe had maybe the trickiest job in movies last year, anchoring a cast of wildly gifted and totally green first-time actors, rolling with their improvisations and imperfections. Like his character tending to a wayward flock in a ramshackle welfare motel, Dafoe provides structure and sanity to The Florida Project. It’s impossible to imagine the movie without him.” – The Muriel Awards, 02/17/2018
“A pungent piece of social history, chronicling the early days of the ACT UP movement in Paris with bawdy humor, bottomless compassion and a rebel yell. Campillo’s film throbs with urgency, the nimble editing constantly interrupting dialogue-heavy scenes with antsy fragments and flickers of action. These characters are running out of time.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 02/02/2018
SPLICED PERSONALITY 