Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Writing a Life: Kristen Stewart’s Triumphant Directorial Debut, The Chronology of Water

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THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER  (Kristen Stewart, USA, 2025, 128 minutes)  "It's all a series of fragments, repetitions, pattern formation...
Sunday, January 18, 2026

Joy Wilkinson Reinvents the Erotic Thriller for a New Era in 7 Keys, Her First Feature Film

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7 KEYS (Joy Wilkinson, UK, 2024, 94 minutes)  For her feature-film debut, British playwright and television writer Joy Wilkinson ( Dr. Who ,...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Nia DaCosta Brings Thrills, Chills, and Duran Duran to 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

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28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE  (Nia DaCosta, 2026, USA, 109 minutes)  What has happened to it all? Crazy, some'd say Where is the life...
Thursday, January 8, 2026

Blood's Thicker Than Mud: Jim Jarmusch’s Unsentimental Father Mother Sister Brother

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FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER (Jim Jarmusch, USA, 2025, 110 mins)  You see, it's in the blood, b oth kids are good to mom,  blood's ...
Friday, January 2, 2026

Grzegorz Królikiewicz's Through and Through Flips the Script on the True Crime Narrative

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THROUGH AND THROUGH / Na Wylot  (Grzegorz Królikiewicz, Poland, 1973, 74 minutes)  Why would a couple kill three people who never did them a...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Lost and Found Film, Book, and Music Reviews: The Aura, Fame Whore, Radio On, and More

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Between 2005 and 2007, I contributed reviews, interviews, and other features to Resonance , a Seattle-based magazine dedicated to music, mov...
Saturday, December 20, 2025

Two Filmmakers Have Adapted Donald Westlake’s The Ax, but One Got It More Right Than the Other: No Other Choice vs The Ax

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NO OTHER CHOICE / Eojjeolsugaeopda / 어쩔수가없다 (Park Chan-wook, Korea, 2025, 139 minutes)  "I subscribe basically to the theory that a mov...