Entertainment journalist, Den of Geek editor and member of the Critics Choice & OFCS critics groups. Read ramblings here: https://xitter.cf/t.co/PqszlFl8Tf…

Joined August 2012
Robert Eggers opens up about his new hair-raising nightmare, this Christmas’ Werwulf. In an exclusive deep-dive profile for Den of Geek’s new digital cover story, the filmmaker discusses his darkest movie to date, including how he and cinematographer Jarin Blaschke pioneered new ways to create a nigh black-and-white, orthochromatic aesthetic and the lengths he and co-writer Sjón went to authentically write the film’s dialogue in Middle English. Eggers also looks back on his career of moonlight and shadow, revealing the root origins of the ghosts he chases, from a family love of Shakespeare to the beginning of a beautiful friendship with Willem Dafoe. All that and more awaits in our Werwulf cover story.
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Colman Domingo says at Michael FYC screening that while unpacking the mythology and lore around Joe Jackson that he needed to remember he was a pre-Civil Rights individual with a very specific concept of what being a man, and “a provider” who modeled “rigor,” meant. Fascinating
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And… retweeted and co-signed.
Obsessed with the idea of an Elizabeth Holmes musical that wins Amanda Seyfried the Tony
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I see folks are arguing Nathan Fielder’s intentions in You Can See Everything. By design I think he is pulling at several threads at once, and I tried unraveling all of them in this deep dive that goes way beyond the “twist” ending: denofgeek.com/movies/you-can…
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Can’t say I’m shocked someone else stepped in to a production midway through filming. I just hope Reeves’ family is getting through this and the directorial change actually has his blessing.
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Is Street Fighter good? Not particularly. Does the story make sense? Not in the slightest. Is the acting good? Depends who we’re talking about (Callina Liang is fab). But if you grew up with ‘90s anime, I’d be lying if I didn’t say there are moments where you’re grinning. MWV
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Just saw Jane Schoenbrun’s Camp Miasma in a beautifully sketchy VHS, pan and scan transfer at a bar in Bushwick (Negative Spade Cinema) and… this might be the ideal way to experience Jane’s hallucinatory reverie to slasher flesh and fluids?
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why don't we just keep making original movies all together.....the simple answer is..... BECAUSE YOU DONT WANT ME TO. DEEP DOWN INSIDE YOU WANT ME POUNDING OUT SEQUEL. AND YOU WANT ME TO KEEP PRODUCING REMAKES!!
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Absolutely wild a filmmaker who claims to love horror, and indeed has worked in it, refers to it as "lowbrow genre" fare and little more than "schlock teenagers used to rent on DVD." Is he sure film festivals are the ones pandering to snobs and elitist, pseudo-intellectuals?
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As a lifelong musical theater lover, I’m on cloud Brigadoon after seeing The Debut at the SAG screening. Julianne Moore is incandescent at channeling the entire actor’s creative journey thru a tertiary community theater bit part. It’s so innocently baby stepping to diva status 1/
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And the deafening applause for her 4-letter monologue in this guild room? A second Oscar looking real likely… 👀
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In my head I’d like to think this is some eighth dimensional chess on Spielberg’s part to keep TCM unharmed. If so, sure bring on 20 more Optimus Prime movies!
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Pawel Pawlikowski’s Fatherland is a deeply pensive work. The film attempts to intellectualize (and acknowledge the inherent limitations therein) the shared cultural legacy of atrocities & shame, and the eternal negotiation between those ghosts and a society’s greater histories 1/
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There can of course be no reconciliation, but that tension between them builds a haunting atmosphere that I cannot help but recognize our current reality in. How we grapple with it (or not), be it like West or East Germany, leaves us without that elusive sense of home. #NYFF
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It's still the same old story A fight for love and glory A case of do or die The world will always welcome lovers As time goes by
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The Social Reckoning will get wildly divergent reactions btwn those who can separate it from The Social Network and those who can't. Think less Citizen Kane than All the President's Men, & even then in that ho-hum, didactic Sorkin way. Still, ho-hum Sorkinese can be entertaining.
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Tom McCarthy’s A Statement fortuitously looks back this weekend to when we tried to solve a burgeoning climate crisis 46 years ago. A sense of maddening frustration is how it’s the same debate half a century later, save the effects no longer feel abstract, and the hour late 1/2
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McCarthy says every line in the conference room played by amazing actors like Paul Rudd, John Turturro, and Paul Giamatti, is taken from literal transcript. They play very smart people who see the meteor but cannot agree how to describe it. It turns as a world into Sisyphus 2/
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The one who most impacts and breaks the heart though is Amy Ryan, a woman surrounded by mostly condescending men who sees science and bureaucratic procedure will not be enough to get them there. Or save us. #NYFF
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