After a dry spell in live theater (filled mostly by live music shows instead), I returned in a big way in the last week, catching no fewer than five shows in seven days, from touring Broadway productions to community theater in my hometown. It made for a whirlwind week and quite a few dinners out, ...
Review: PRISCILLA
Sofia Coppola is a filmmaker who, from the moment she arrived on the scene with 1999's moody and melancholy The Virgin Suicides, announced herself with a style, perspective and narrative approach all her own. The screenwriter and director, essentially fully formed from the get go, is the daughter of ...
Review: ANATOMY OF A FALL
The opening scenes of Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall are disconcerting and quietly upsetting, a glimpse into a dysfunctional domestic setting that immediately gives audiences a taste of the discomfort to come as the film's two and a half hours unfolds. Author, wife and mother Sandra (the great ...
Dispatch: 59th Chicago International Film Festival’s First Weekend
For Third Coast Review, I'm covering a selection of films screening at the 59th Chicago International Film Festival, and it's been fun to dig into this year's overall line-up. This festival in particular has a reputation for bringing many of the season's most anticipated films to local audiences, ...
Review: SHE CAME TO ME
Some years ago, at the height of their respective careers, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence starred in a movie called Serena. It's likely you've never seen it, or if you did, you didn't like it; it was not well received by distributors or critics, and it shocked most of the industry when, in ...
2021 [in film]
As the world (sort of) opened back up again this year, my film viewing responded accordingly; in January, I "attended" a virtual Sundance Film Festival, and by September I was logging a negative PCR test to make my way to Canada for an in-person Toronto Film Festival. Vaccinated and masked, I ...
The Era of Audrey
In October of 2003, I was a senior in college and already thinking about what life might be like once I headed out on my own after graduation. I had grown up with a family cat, and I was thinking it might be nice to have another with me for whatever adventures awaited. So when a friend mentioned ...
Review: Eric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons
I regret to say I have not spent the last year getting into the best shape of my life or launching a new side-hustle or doing any other monumental work some have managed to make happen in the midst of a pandemic. That's not to say I haven't picked up a new hobby or two. I've certainly cooked at home ...
Recipe: Spicy Peanut Chicken
First things first: this is not becoming a cooking blog. Nevertheless, the longer the pandemic lasts, the better I get at feeding myself. It's gotten to the point that I repeat a recipe enough that I essentially know it by heart and start to play with the ingredients and flavors. Several ...
Review: Some Kind of Heaven
On a recent episode of the New York Times podcast "The Daily," the show that focuses on one timely news story each morning, reporters descended on The Villages, the massive, pre-fab retirement community in central Florida. Boasting over 120,000 residents, the community is reliably conservative and, ...
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