Daddy Longlegs (Go Get Some Rosemary) A Film by Josh and Benny Safdie (2009)

Like Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale , Josh and Benny Safdie's microbudget tale of fatherhood-gone-wrong (or right, dependin...

Attack on "Slow Cinema"!

In the past few weeks, a handful of critics ( Steven Shaviro , Dan Fox , Glenn Kenny , Danny Leigh , Vadim Rizov ) have begun passive-aggres...

Ossos (Bones) A Film by Pedro Costa (1997)

Pedro Costa's first look at the lives of Cape Verdean immigrants in the Fontainhas slum is also his first pronounced gesture towards a k...

Lady Blue Shanghai (2010) A Short Film by David Lynch

Remember David Lynch's vehement disapproval of all things product placement in the past? Well, given that apparent sense of outrage at ...

Sensitive Poetry or Amateur Strokes of Luck? The Films of Aaron Katz

Critical polarization has struck me again in the face of the films of Aaron Katz. I tend to approve and disapprove of his work at the same r...

Before Sunset (2004) A Film by Richard Linklater

Sequels, those intolerable addendums that Hollywood regularly churns out in the sole interest of hearty financial returns, have never seen a...

A New Outlet

I have recently been accepted as a freelance writer for Examiner.com , a national news website that caters to all sorts of special interests...

Before Sunrise (1995) A Film by Richard Linklater

After sensitively probing the scattered fabric of Generation X with his seminal features Slacker (1991) and Dazed and Confused (1993), Ric...