Post-irony and the afflictive American self in David Foster Wallace’s Literary Non-Fiction10,000 words about David Foster Wallace’s pursuit of sincerity.Mar 12, 2021Mar 12, 2021
Published inThe Indiependent‘Crash’ At 25: David Cronenberg’s Most Divisive OddityDavid Cronenberg’s glacial and oddly moving fetish thriller Crash turns 25 this year. But has its depiction of futurism and kink become…Feb 28, 2021Feb 28, 2021
Published inThe IndiependentThe Ingenious Artifice of Brian De Palma’s ‘Body Double’What do fictional serial killer Patrick Bateman and I have in common, aside from an encyclopaedic knowledge of the musical ‘Les…Nov 29, 2020Nov 29, 2020
Published inThe IndiependentRevisiting ‘Forever Mine,’ Paul Schrader’s Turn-of-the-Millennium DudHow do you solve a problem like Paul Schrader?Nov 1, 2020Nov 1, 2020
Published inThe Indiependent‘Ammonite’ is a Painstakingly Excavated TreasureSome may find the sweeping chilliness of Francis Lee’s sophomore feature too bleak, but consider this critic’s cockles warmed. Saoirse…Oct 18, 2020Oct 18, 2020
Published inThe Indiependent‘David Byrne’s American Utopia’- A Life-Affirming Ode to Human ConnectionThirty-six years after Stop Making Sense set the bar stratospherically high for the concert film, an unlikely duo has created an urgently…Oct 16, 2020Oct 16, 2020
Published inThe Indiependent‘The Intruder’ — an intriguing aural nightmareErica Riva plays a traumatised woman drowning in the sound of her own nightmares in this De Palma-esque thriller.Oct 12, 2020Oct 12, 2020
Published inThe Indiependent‘Supernova’ — Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci At A Celestial Career BestSupernova is an elegant, elegiac story of two soulmates facing the cruelty of dementia, with director Harry Macqueen crafting a mature…Oct 9, 2020Oct 9, 2020
Published inThe Indiependent‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ is a Blizzard of Existential Strife: Review“Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.”Sep 4, 2020Sep 4, 2020
Published inThe IndiependentTim Roth, ‘Captives’ and the British erotic thrillerThe three most-liked reviews of Captives on the film social network Letterboxd are pretty similar in their brazen horniness for Tim Roth.Aug 23, 2020Aug 23, 2020
