About twelve blocks away from the apartment Frances (Greta Gerwig) shares with her best friend Sophie (Mickey Sumner) in Prospect Heights, which is right by the towering Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch that overlooks a stretch of downtown Brooklyn and the park, is the apartment I’ve been living in since…

Alan Paul’s revival is a flash in the can can — Blown up like a monstrous bouquet of broken shards, a mirror looms above and behind the Barrington Stage Company’s spin on the Kit Kat Club. The band is seated before the jagged shapes, elegant cursive K’s on their bandstand in front of them. The slices warp and bend the dancers’…

Jennifer Lawrence’s new sex comedy gave me Lubitsch vibes — There’s not much sex in No Hard Feelings, an R rated comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence as a woman named Maddie who is basically using sex as a form of capital. When replying to an ad to scare quotes date the socially awkward son (Andrew Barth Feldman) of two enormously wealthy…

(Author’s Note: This was originally written for Metrograph’s publication in 2019, but when they revamped their still barely functional…

Would you believe that it’s taken six Scream movies to kill off a film studies professor? They’ve slashed their way through chatty cinephiles, a director, and other kinds of sycophants, but it isn’t until now, in Scream VI, that they’ve finally made good on their flirtation with the disposing of…

Everyone in the audience tittered away as Mitchell Winter hovered centimeters from the face of an audience member in the front row, unspooling, “What if I said, you are the single most important breath in my space? You are the first gear that turns the clock of my world.” Lean…

Two things I inherited from my mother: an unabiding love for Bringing Up Baby and an expertise in passive aggression. Few people can be passive-aggressive like my mother. It’s like it was written into her DNA, and threaded into the very cloth of her existence. It is such a significant…

what if i started using this as a blog, the way they used to exist, in the time where you say things like “what if i started a blog” and someone on the receiving end lets a shudder run through their body. i don’t know what people use medium for…

On how “Babylon” is great because it understands the experience of someone who grew up watching movies about people who party and do drugs but only recently actually started going to parties and doing drugs — As I have told my friends when defending it, my theory about Babylon, the epic cinematic blaspheming of Hollywood history and the industry’s transition from silent to sound pictures, is that it was made by someone who only recently started doing drugs. (Trying to explain the movie to my friends…