
Chemtrails over the Country Club by Lana Del Rey
My rule for reviews has typically been not to review anything released less than ten years ago. My reasoning is simple: I believe that...

Transistor Radio by M. Ward
Nostalgia is complicated. For a long time, I considered it entirely negatively perhaps because of the way it is used to fetishize a...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
I am always surprised to discover a book, film, album, painting, or any other piece of art that I have been unaware of and which...

The Royal Tenenbaums
In my entire life I have only gone to the cinema alone on a handful of occasions. This was rarely by choice even though each time was...

Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morrissette
I was late to this. I did not get it at all. I was a lazy fifteen-year-old boy when it came out. What I heard was anger and stories I...

Grosse Pointe Blank
Grosse Point Blank (1997) feels to me like something of an outlier in 90’s cinema. A brutally black comedy about a hitman returning to...









