Film criticsm
I am a freelance film critic and podcaster.
I co-founded of the film site & podcast Back Row, film podcast Cinema60, and I appear on the CherryPicks network of female film critics.
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FILM REVIEWS & ESSAYS
Bright Wall/Dark Room
Freelance contributor
My Rifle, My Chainsaw, and Me (Evil Dead II - Extras, May 2023)
The Straight Man, The Monkey and the Unspoken (Issue 93: Dynamic Duos)
The Saragossa Manuscript: An Ode to the Journey of Digression (Issue 85: The Great Unknown)
The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women
Contributing essayist for book by Alicia Malone (Turner Classic Movies)
Back Row
Co-founder, Editor-in-Chief
A Third Problem I Haven't Seen: Asteroid City Explained
The Card Counter, Guilt, and Brokenness
Do Good Intentions Even Matter? A Study in the Licorice Pizza Controversy
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Sends the American Dream to the Gallows
I Watched It So You Don't Have To: Myra Breckinridge
The Coca-Cola Kid and the Corporate Comforts of Selling Out
My Friend Dahmer Review: Disgust & Empathy
Aronofsky's mother! is an Allegory for the Obvious
The Endless Poetry of Alejandro Jodorowsky
The Lowbrow Prince of Greaser's Palace: In Memoriam Robert Downey Sr
Singing Cowboys Make Americana Great Again
Nuclear Documentaries or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Our Fate
Double Feature: Girl Getters Get Got in '64
Miss 2D Animation? Look To The Concept Art
The Remake, The Revival and The Cover
podcasting
Cinema60
Co-producer, audio editor, on-air talent. Select episodes below:
Ep#83 - Bands Playing Themselves in the 60s
Ep#75 - Federico Fellini in the 60s
Ep#69 - Egypt's Golden Age of Cinema in the 60s
Ep#41 - Jazz Anxiety Films in the 60s
Ep#35 - Eyeliner Westerns in the 60s
Ep#27 - Technophobic Science Fiction in 1968
Ep#20 - The Legend of Faust in the '60s
Ep#9 - Polish Arthouse Cinema in the '60s
Notes From The Back Row
Co-producer, audio editor, on-air talent. Select episodes below:
Decade vs Decade - 60s v 80s Fantasy
A Conversation with Lynn Novick on Hemingway, Masculinity, Mythos & Filmmaking
Hoser Horror: Deathdream (1974) & Seizure (1974)
Post-Anime Club: Tokyo Idols & Perfect Blue
Raisin' Hell with Burton, Harris, O'Toole, and Reed in the #MeToo Era
The Tomfoolery of Jerry Lewis Movies
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On-air guest talent
