So, Brandon Cronenberg has a new film out and it does the family name proud. It's exceptional. Deeply violent and upsetting in a most provocative and visceral way.
07 October 2020
10 September 2020
Beau Travail with Dave White
10 August 2020
At the movies: She Dies Tomorrow.
So Amy Seimetz' staggering new film She Dies Tomorrow is currently playing On Demand (but also for at least the rest of the week at some drive-ins around the country), and you owe it to yourself to check it out because it's great and cathartic.
20 July 2020
At the (virtual) movies: The Painted Bird.
Already infamous from its debut at Venice in 2019, this movie is a lot. Like, way too much for most folk, and I'm including myself. If you thrive on the arthouse challenge, which can often be the subtitled equivalent of a frathouse dare, you may feel compelled to experience it. And it is a visceral and transformative experience.
09 July 2020
Learning how things work. A talk with Kim Carnes.
So in the fulfillment of a lifelong dream, I got to talk to singer/songwriter/icon Kim Carnes about her 1985 album Barking At Airplanes. It was an amazing experience, and I'm glad to be able to share it with the public.
21 May 2020
The Primal Stream (updated weekly)...
THE ADJUSTER
THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE EIGHTH DIMENSION
ARMY OF THE DEAD
THE ASSIGNMENT/(RE)ASSIGNMENT
ATHENA
THE ASSIGNMENT/(RE)ASSIGNMENT
ATHENA
THE BLACK CAT (1934)
THE BLACKCOAT'S DAUGHTER/FEBRUARY
BLACKHAT (Director's Cut)
THE BLACK HOLE
BLOOD QUANTUM
BLUE COLLAR
BMX BANDITS
BONES
THE BLACKCOAT'S DAUGHTER/FEBRUARY
BLACKHAT (Director's Cut)
THE BLACK HOLE
BLOOD QUANTUM
BLUE COLLAR
BMX BANDITS
BONES
Quarantine Catchup.
My, quite a bit has happened.
I'm currently in exile, like the rest of us. I took a socially distanced trip to the Drive-In and wrote about it, as well as reviewing The Wretched, a refreshingly brisk horror flick that benefits greatly from both the drive-in setting and the historical moment it arrives in.
I've pivoted into mostly streaming reviews at the moment. A weekly collection of them, in fact. It's going to have its own post that gets updated each week, because that's just how the world is for the foreseeable future.
I've also got a monthly column in Out and About Nashville called THE SPECIAL SHELF, where I've been reviewing interesting queer cinema.
2019 LGBTQIA+ cinema in review.
Hindi-language musical Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan.
A double feature in what I like to call NOT IN FRONT OF THE STRAIGHT PEOPLE Cinema: Midnight Kiss and You're Killing Me.
Legendary Sundance drama Urbania.
Get your wig down out of the box, it's Hedwig and The Angry Inch.
Sultry psychodrama Devil's Path.
The gorgeous and emotionally devastating cosmic horror Starfish.
You know it, you love it, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge! And if you're going to read that, you should read this as well- a piece I wrote on Elm Street 2 in 2004- I was tapped in from an early place.
A twofer of Freeway 2: Confessions of a Trickbaby and the series Now Apocalypse.
Brazilian gay post-picaresque Bathroom Stalls and Parking Lots.
Films Maudits: Basic Instinct and Cruising.
2019 Pride quartet: Boom!, Jeffrey, Can't Stop The Music, and To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar!
Horror classic Witchboard.
Chilean psychosexual cinephile drama Cola De Mono.
And there's also:
Vitalina Varela, a gorgeous and devastating film from Pedro Costa.
The Hunt - the last film I saw in actual theatres before everything went to shit.
Well, I hate to be the one to break it to you, but Fantasy Island is an incoherent mess.
The Invisible Man, which is so, so, so good.
Zombi Child, the latest from Bertrand Bonello
The exquisite Georgian queer dance film And Then We Danced.
A review of the bonkers VHYes.
Musicwise...
Here's an interview I did with Susan Ottaviano from synth-pop legends BOOK OF LOVE and a preshow piece I wrote about the band's legacy.
Jonny Gowow dropped a new single and launched a podcast.
I'm currently in exile, like the rest of us. I took a socially distanced trip to the Drive-In and wrote about it, as well as reviewing The Wretched, a refreshingly brisk horror flick that benefits greatly from both the drive-in setting and the historical moment it arrives in.
I've pivoted into mostly streaming reviews at the moment. A weekly collection of them, in fact. It's going to have its own post that gets updated each week, because that's just how the world is for the foreseeable future.
I've also got a monthly column in Out and About Nashville called THE SPECIAL SHELF, where I've been reviewing interesting queer cinema.
2019 LGBTQIA+ cinema in review.
Hindi-language musical Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan.
A double feature in what I like to call NOT IN FRONT OF THE STRAIGHT PEOPLE Cinema: Midnight Kiss and You're Killing Me.
Legendary Sundance drama Urbania.
Get your wig down out of the box, it's Hedwig and The Angry Inch.
Sultry psychodrama Devil's Path.
The gorgeous and emotionally devastating cosmic horror Starfish.
You know it, you love it, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge! And if you're going to read that, you should read this as well- a piece I wrote on Elm Street 2 in 2004- I was tapped in from an early place.
A twofer of Freeway 2: Confessions of a Trickbaby and the series Now Apocalypse.
Brazilian gay post-picaresque Bathroom Stalls and Parking Lots.
Films Maudits: Basic Instinct and Cruising.
2019 Pride quartet: Boom!, Jeffrey, Can't Stop The Music, and To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar!
Horror classic Witchboard.
Chilean psychosexual cinephile drama Cola De Mono.
And there's also:
Vitalina Varela, a gorgeous and devastating film from Pedro Costa.
The Hunt - the last film I saw in actual theatres before everything went to shit.
Well, I hate to be the one to break it to you, but Fantasy Island is an incoherent mess.
The Invisible Man, which is so, so, so good.
Zombi Child, the latest from Bertrand Bonello
The exquisite Georgian queer dance film And Then We Danced.
A review of the bonkers VHYes.
Musicwise...
Here's an interview I did with Susan Ottaviano from synth-pop legends BOOK OF LOVE and a preshow piece I wrote about the band's legacy.
Jonny Gowow dropped a new single and launched a podcast.
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