Gabriadze: Unfriended (2014)
Without a doubt, Unfriended is the most formally innovative horror film I’ve seen since Paranormal Activity. Like Paranormal Activity, it uses cinema to represent media [...]
Angie Tribeca: Season 1 (2016)
Over the last decade, virtually every television workplace comedy has been touched in some way by the success of the American Office and Parks and Recreation. However, now [...]
The Life of Pablo: Notes on Yeezy
It might seem strange to put up a review of The Life of Pablo before the album has even been released. At the same time, it feels as if Kanye is striving to turn the [...]
Franz & Fiala: Ich Seh, Ich Seh (Goodnight Mommy) (2014)
Although there is no end of horror films about Nazi Germany, it’s rarer to find a contemporary horror film that probes the lingering effects of the Nazi mindset as [...]
Veep: Season 4 (2015)
Now in its fourth season, Veep feels as if it is in a transitional phase. For one thing, Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is no longer Veep: she’s the incumbent [...]
Making a Murderer (2015)
“Reviewing” seems a strangely literal – or a strangely inadequate – response to an event like Making a Murderer. Joining the ranks of documentaries that have [...]
Transparent: Season 2 (2015)
As I mentioned in my previous post, I was somewhat taken aback to find that the second season of Transparent was – for me, at least – every bit as perfect as the first. [...]
Conceptualising L.A.
Against all odds, the second season of Transparent is every bit as perfect as the first. Granted, I may have been in a particularly receptive space this time around, not just [...]
David Bowie: Blackstar (2016)
When I first heard that David Bowie had died, I was in a plane over the Pacific Ocean, stricken by an extreme bout of food poisoning. Delirious, I clambered onto United Wi-Fi [...]
Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo (2015)
In many ways, Live at the Apollo is the Amy Schumer triumph I’ve been waiting for throughout 2015. That might sound like a bit of a weird thing to say, since 2015 has been [...]