My rule for reviews has typically been not to review anything released less than ten years ago. My reasoning is simple: I believe that...

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

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...

Restless and anxious. That is how ‘Third’ by Big Star feels to me. Actually, it sounds like I feel when I’m overcome by panic. The...

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...

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...

Lots of us are looking for a little peace from the troubles we carry with us – the traumas, the worries, the sadness and the anger – that...