All Film & TV Writing

Film

The Tango Lesson (1997). wig-wag, vol. 30.

“Bad Romances: Abuse of Weakness.” Crooked Marquee, February 12, 2024.

“Anatomy of a Fall is a Stunning Experiment in Unknowability.” CrimeReads, November 3, 2023.

“‘Reason Has Limits: The Fog of War at 20.” Crooked Marquee, December 19, 2023.

“Something Intricate and Many-Chambered: On Adapting Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.” Los Angeles Review of Books, November 25, 2023.

“‘A Little Like a Soap Opera’: The Sleaze and Sympathy of Star 80.” Crooked Marquee, November 8, 2023.

“Anatomy of a Fall is a Stunning Experiment in Unknowability.” CrimeReads, November 3, 2023.

“The Pigeon Tunnel, The New Film About John le Carré, Is Intimate and Illuminating.” CrimeReads, October 25, 2023.

“The Jewel Thief is an Intimate Portrait of a Criminal Mastermind.” CrimeReads, July 28. 2023

“The True Crime Melodrama of I Want to Live!“ Crooked Marquee, October 5, 2023.

“A Marvelous Grace” (on The Grand Budapest Hotel). Bright Wall/Dark Room, September 29, 2023.

“Flawless: Kay Francis’ Jewel Heist Comedies.” Crooked Marquee, August 28, 2023.

“The Jewel Thief Is An Intimate Portrait of a Criminal Mastermind.” CrimeReads, July 28, 2023.

“Classic Corner: The Leopard.” Crooked Marquee, July 14, 2023.

“Orlando at 30: Sally Potter’s Winking, Dazzling Allegory of Sexuality.” Crooked Marquee, June 8, 2023.

“White House Plumbers Tells the Whole Story of all the Stupid, Very Dirty Stuff That Went Down During Watergate.” CrimeReads, May 31, 2023.

“Classic Corner: Valley Girl.“ Crooked Marquee, April 28, 2023.

“The Producers at 55: A Loony, Twisted, Comic Love Letter to Broadway.” Crooked Marquee, March 17, 2023.

“The Bad Romances of Ruth Rendell.” Crooked Marquee, February 8, 2023.

“And All That Jazz: Chicago at 20.” Crooked Marquee, January 3, 2023.

“In The Super 8 Years, Annie Ernaux Drifts Between Domesticity and Creativity.” LitHub, December 6, 2022.

“What a Wonderful World: Bowling for Columbine at 20.” Crooked Marquee, October, 10, 2022.

"There’s Irma Vep and Then There’s Irma Vep.” CrimeReads, September 12, 2022.

“The Big Influence on Bodies Bodies Bodies Everyone is Missing.” Slate, August 15, 2022.

“Why Strictly Ballroom is Essential Baz Luhrmann.” Crooked Marquee, August 24, 2022.

“Classic Corner: The Parallax View.” Crooked Marquee, July, 8, 2022.

“‘How Would You Describe our Bonds?’: The Chosen Family Melodrama.” (On All About My Mother and Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train.) Bright Wall/Dark Room, June 28, 2022

“Classic Corner: The Ruling Class.” Crooked Marquee, May, 6, 2022.

“The Naked and The Damned.” MayDay, April 25, 2002.

“Looking back on one of the scariest serial-killer films ever made, 10 Rillington Place.” CrimeReads, April 15, 2022.

“Classic Corner: Design for Living.” Crooked Marquee, April 1, 2022.

“If Life Were Only Moments” (On Now, Voyager). Bright Wall/Dark Room, March 23, 2022.

“The Complicated Legacy of Russ Meyer.” Crooked Marquee, March 15, 2022.

“Cinema, Theater, and the Art of Perpetual Transformation in Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth.” Los Angeles Review of Books, March 11, 2022.

“Pleasure, Cruelty and Arrogance in Glowing Colors.” (On The Scarlet Empress and The Great). Bright Wall/Dark Room. February 28, 2022.

“The Tonal Trickery of Death on the Nile.” Crooked Marquee, February 28, 2022.

“The Female Gaze of Doris Wishman.” Crooked Marquee, January 11, 2022.

“On the Murder Mystery Written by Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins.” CrimeReads, December 10, 2021.

“The Cynical Sentiment of Network.” Crooked Marquee, January 11, 2022.

“Could On Her Majesty'‘s Secret Service Be the Best Bond Film?” CrimeReads, October 8, 2021.

“Perfect Playmates: Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant.” Bright Wall/Dark Room, March 2021.

“For Magdalena Montezuma.” Another Gaze, March 2020.

TV:

“A Reality TV Show’s Visit to Ukraine Tests the Limits of the Form.” (On 90 Day Fiancé). Slate, April 29, 2022.

“‘What Shall We Do About Claudius?”: An Underdog Rising in Decline and Fall.” Bright Wall/Dark Room, August 30, 2021

“A Rumination on DCI Jane Tennison.” CrimeReads August 26, 2021.

“Pleasure, Cruelty and Arrogance in Glowing Colors” (On The Scarlet Empress and The Great). Bright Wall/Dark Room. February 28, 2022.

“Season Six of Better Call Saul Brings Jimmy McGill to his Final Crossroads.” CrimeReads, April 19, 2022.