2019’s Ten Best Films Directed By Women

2019’s Ten Best Films Directed By Women

Cine-Excess 2019

I answered an open call for papers for Cine-Excess , a cult/horror conference and film festival currently in its 13th year (fitting!) an...

Muriels Hall of Fame, Class of 2019: It's A Wonderful Life

" Anyone can end up grappling their fate like George Bailey but it is the tiny town of Bedford Falls collectively striving for a future...

Review: The Souvenir/dir. Joanna Hogg

" While watching the film one is subsumed into its quiet intensity and grainy beauty, urged to lean in closer to the intimate spaces ...

Notes From Oberhausen Short Film Festival

Notes From Oberhausen Short Film Festival-- May 1-6 2019 Oberhausen, Germany   Throughout its sixty-five years, Oberhausen Short Film F...

Freeze Frame: when a moving picture stops moving

When I started writing film criticism my first editor commented on my use of tense: I moved between past and present effortlessly. I woul...