TV: Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities
If there’s a defining drawback to Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, it may be the way it cherishes filmmaking over narrative. Weirdly, this is also a defining strength. The …
Film: Kill the Messenger
The fact that I’m still pondering the historical veracity of Kill the Messenger (2014) is a good sign that it has successfully made its point as a post-truth era conspiracy …
Film: The Jesus Rolls
I did not have high expectations for The Jesus Rolls (2019), but apparently I had some, because they were emphatically dashed. What a weird cocktail: John Turturro reprises his flamboyant …
TV: Watchmen
Is it weird to say I would have enjoyed Watchmen (2019) more if I hadn’t been so aware I wasn’t enjoying Watchmen more? That circular sentence kind of sums up …
Film: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The western is a distinctly American film genre. This observation definitely isn’t lost on Joel and Ethan Coen in their beautiful, if uneven, Netflix anthology film The Ballad of Buster …