And the Relationship of Cleo 5 to 7 to Richard Linklater
While watching Agnes Varda’s 1962 masterpiece Cleo from 5 to 7 recently as part of a local St. L...
How Deep is the Well for "Wellness"?
DIRECTED BY GORE VERBINSKI/2017
A Cure For Wellness is a movie that had mediocre written all over it from its inception...
Park Chan-wook Returns with an Enticing Historical Drama
DIRECTED BY PARK CHAN-WOOK/KOREAN & JAPANESE/2016
In the mid-aught, South Korean auteur Park Ch...
Sometimes the Past Interferes with the Future
DIRECTED BY MARCIN WRONA/2016
A lot of the press around the new Polish horror film Demon is surrounded by the ...
A Hilarious Journey Through New Zealand
DIRECTED BY TAIKA WAITITI/2016
Hunt for the Wilderpeople is from director Taika Waititi, who directed What We Do in ...
Shine as Little Light as Possible on this Movie
DIRECTED BY DAVID F. SANDBERG/2016
The short film that the new horror film Lights Out is based on, which goe...
Documenting the Deterioration of a City
DIRECTED BY ABEL FERRARA/Italian/2009
STREET DATE: July 12, 2016/ RARO VIDEO and KINO LORBER
There’s no reason to...
Faith is 24 Hours of Doubt and one Moment of Hope
DIRECTED BY ANNE FONTAINE/FRENCH, POLISH, RUSSIAN/2016
World War II has been extensively covered by films ...
The Several Lives of a Poor, Misfortunate Dog
DIRECTED BY TODD SOLONDZ/2016
Wiener dogs are just adorable. Loyal, cute in spite of their awkwardness, and wi...
Paul has written about politics and baseball for other outlets in the past. Besides cinema, he cites baseball, music and fitness as other key passions in his life. His reviews are humorous and sometimes cutting, aiming to get at central themes of any given movie. For him, the value of film lies in the way the art form can use plot, vision and sound to create stories of flawed, relatable people that are riveting and allegories for deeper things.
