“The best way to treat The Avengers is as cinema’s answer to the supergroup. Stark and his buddies club together just as Bob Dylan, George Harrison and the others did to form the Traveling Wilburys. Harrison wondered what it would be like to tour: ‘Would each person do a solo set and then to Wilburys at the end, or would we all go right on from beginning to end and make everything Wilburys?’ Whedon leans toward the first option, and so, come the climax, they all do Wilburys.”
– Anthony Lane in The New Yorker, May 14, 2012
A film critic’s Declaration of Principles.
For NPR Monkey See
On Haywire, Steven Soderbergh’s action-cinema debut (Jan. 2012)
There Will Be Acid-Blood: On Loving ALIEN and Parsing Prometheus (June 2012)
I’m Sorry, Sam Mendes, for expecting you to make a a lousy James Bond movie (Nov. 2012)
They Still Call Me John McClane: A die-hard’s guide to the Die Hard-iverse (Feb. 2013)
Star Trek into Dorkness: How the New Trek Film Revisits a 32-year-old Debate for a 47-year-old Franchise’s Soul (May 2013)
For The Village Voice
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Return of the Machine (Jan. 2013)
Simon Killer (April 2013)
(No) Fear of a Shane Black Planet (April 2013)
For Filmspotting
The Top Five Things I Forgot to Say While Presenting My Top Five Remakes
For DCist
14 Women
Bulletproof Salesman
Facing Ali
Garbage Warrior
Grbavica: City of My Dreams
Inside Man
Kassim the Dream
My Winnipeg
Once
Stand Up
Supermen of Malegaon
Theater of War
Voices from El-Sayed
U23D
For The Indian Express
Bloat in 48 Frames Per Second: On Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
For The Washington City Paper
Discussing AMC’s 2009 remake of The Prisoner with Glen Weldon, parts one, two, and three
A Brand New Life, reviewed
Joe Papp in Five Acts
The Solitary Life of Cranes
For (The Washington Post’s) Express Night Out
misc.
24: The Drinking Game
David Lynch at the AFI
WTF, Prometheus?
