is a New Jersey–based writer. He’s an Associate Editor at Bright Wall/Dark Room, and his writing has appeared in Reverse Shot, MUBI Notebook, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.
Robert Wise—director of the two best Broadway-on-celluloid adaptations in human history—attempts and achieves the improbable here: he sets a Robert Louis Stevenson short story about...
November 4, 2025
The trick of the classic-rock guitar solo depends on what came before it. The best—which is to say, the most exemplary in this least-relevant, most exuberantly puerile...
October 24, 2025
Movies don’t save lives, but they do relitigate memory and imagination. The beloved suddenly reappears in frame, reanimated through some alchemical bargain of light and motion.
April 21, 2025
The DP and director on the fantastic potential in image-making/-seeing, learning to photograph the world, and the possibility of a Demon Knight sequel.
January 13, 2025
Joe Dante, who got his start in show business cutting trailers for Roger Corman’s New World Pictures, has always placed a premium on the momentary turbulence that exists...
December 24, 2024
Movie and life revelations from the actor behind Chucky and other iconic roles of darkness.
September 3, 2024
is a writer, photographer, videographer, and cinephile living in Portland, Oregon.
