Happy to announce that I've started a website to catalogue more of my film writing. If you follow me and are interested in what I have to say, please subscribe! For my first piece, I did a deep dive on this underseen Douglas Sirk melodrama, which you can read here:
For those curious, here's a sample:
It is always raining in Pasadena. There’s no light here, none of the abundant sunshine that illuminates cosmopolitan Los Angeles or the refreshing…
“You are too fortissimo, too allegro, too Cointreau.”
“Is that bad?”
“It ain’t good!”
My favorite Three Stooges short.
My best friend can convince me to do anything with him- paying to see this mediocrity theatrically being a great example. Nothing here you can’t glean from a Wikipedia article about the subjects. Follows in the Alexandra Pelosi tradition of making a bog standard documentary about a famous parent, with absolutely no insight or cinematic style, beyond saying “Golly gee, isn’t it wild that these two take so long to make these biographies? How could a writer and editor be…
At a certain point, a fly writes “I WILL KILL YOU” in a windshield, set to the hardest track you’ve ever heard in your life. Physically exhausted from how much I was smiling, laughing and cheering from watching this. For those unaware- this movie is about a love triangle, where one guy gets killed by another, only to be reincarnated as a fly and torment his killer. S.S. Rajamouli does absolutely everything possible with this premise, making one of the…
