FEARLESS PRETENDER BONUS EPISODE: PROOF ON BROADWAY

Joined my dear old NYU friend Jason Shawhan for a bonus episode of his podcast devoted to all things Jennifer Jason Leigh. We talked about returning to visit our old stomping grounds in New York City one month after 9/11 and how we wound up seeing JJL on Broadway in David Auburn’s Proof. A digressive reminiscence of a strange and nervous time.Fearless Pretender, 06/06/2025

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THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME

“It may sound strange to describe a Wes Anderson film as the summer’s most delightful action-comedy. Missing the usual Anderson undercurrents of grief and melancholy, it’s more gag-based than anything he’s done in ages, with an early bit involving a plane’s ejector seat so exquisitely timed it caused me to make a spectacle of myself at the press screening.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 06/05/2025

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BALLERINA

“Remember those straight-to-video spin-offs that used to clog the shelves at your local Blockbuster, offering the cheaper and less star-studded continuing adventures of Tremors, From Dusk ‘Till Dawn or American Pie Presents? The blatantly lousy Ballerina is not so much beating a dead horse as it’s making sure all the parts have been ground up for dog food.” – North Shore Movies, 06/05/2025

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DANGEROUS ANIMALS

“This is a movie about a beautiful woman on a big shitty boat trying to fight off a psycho who wants to make her a meal for sharks, and the filmmakers understand that this premise is enough. At a time when so many horror films have been overthought into tedious dissertations, it’s a relief to find one that has nothing on its mind beyond showing you a good time.” – North Shore Movies, 06/05/2025

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KEVIN SMITH’S DOGMA RESURRECTED

“Revisiting Dogma, we see an artist’s ambitions stretched beyond his abilities. The movie is a failure, but an honest one. It’s sad to watch today, knowing Smith would never again swing for the fences like this, spending the next 25 years catering to an undiscerning fanbase with reflexive indolence, turning his own laziness and incompetence into part of the joke.” – North Shore Movies, 06/05/2025

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