Index of The Take-Up Reviews and Other External Articles by Post Date
This index includes my reviews, essays, and festival coverage published at The Take-Up, Riverfront Times The Lens, St. Louis Magazine, and other sites.
The Take-Up Articles and Podcast Episodes + Riverfront Times
Review: ‘Anora’ - 10/30/24
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘Follow the Fleet’, ‘The Mother of All Lies’ - 10/22/24
Review: ‘Smile 2’ - 10/17/24
Review: ‘A Different Man’ - 10/2/24
Review: ‘The Substance’ - 9/24/24
Review: ‘Eureka’ - 9/19/24
Rutted Gravel Roads Through Hell: The Singular Cinema of Blake Eckard - 9/4/24
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘Josie and the Pussycats’, ‘Cuckoo’, ‘Handling the Undead’ - 8/21/24
Review: ‘Alien: Romulus’ - 8/15/24
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘Crimes of Passion’, ‘Last Summer’ - 8/2/24
Review: ‘Last Summer’ - 7/29/24
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘Little Caesar’, ‘America’, ‘MaXXXine’, ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ - 7/16/24
Review: ‘Longlegs’ - 7/16/24
Review: ‘MaXXXine’ - 7/5/24
Review: ‘The Bikeriders’ - 6/17/24
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘Johnny Guitar’, ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’, ‘I Saw the TV Glow’, ‘In Our Day’ - 6/11/24
Review: ‘Art College 1994’ - 6/5/24
Review: ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ - 5/14/24
Review: ‘The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed’ - 4/30/24
Review: ‘The People’s Joker’ - 4/17/24
Review: ‘The First Omen’ - 4/8/24
Review: ‘Monkey Man’ - 4/5/24
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘The Shining’, ‘Late Night with the Devil’, ‘Stopmotion’, ‘Riddle of Fire’ - 3/26/24
Review: ‘Pictures of Ghosts’ - 3/14/24
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘Birth’, ‘Behind the Haystacks’, ‘Here’, ‘Io Capitano’ - 3/13/24
Review: ‘Io Capitano’ - 3/6/24
Review: ‘Dune: Part Two’ - 2/29/24
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘Gummo’, ‘How to Have Sex’, ‘Skin Deep’, ‘Under the Fig Trees’ - 2/13/24
Review: ‘How to Have Sex’ - 2/12/24
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘Stone Cold’, ‘Dario Argento: Panico’, ‘The Seeding’, ‘Trunk: Locked In’ - 1/30/24
Review: ‘Dario Argento: Panico’ - 1/30/24
Review: ‘Youth (Spring)’ - 1/16/24
The Take-Up Podcast - The Best Films of 2023, ‘Apolonia, Apolonia’, ‘Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell’ - 1/16/24
The Best Films of 2023 - 1/14/24
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘Evil Dead Rise’ - 1/12/24
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’, ‘Eileen’, ‘Ferrari’, ‘The Zone of Interest’ - 1/1/24
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’, ‘Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros’ - 12/12/23
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘They Cloned Tyrone’, ‘May December’, ‘Poor Things’ - 11/30/23
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘The Lost Boys’, ‘The Killer’, ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ - 11/14/23
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘Let the Right One In’, ‘Fair Play’, ‘The Royal Hotel’ - 10/13/23
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte’, ‘Dumb Money’, ‘No One Will Save You’ - 10/9/23
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘Eaten Alive’, ‘The Funhouse’ - 9/29/23
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘Escape from Alcatraz’, ‘Between Two Worlds’ - 9/15/23
Review: ‘Streetwise’ - 8/29/23
Review: ‘Between Two Worlds’ - 8/25/23
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘Deliverance’, ‘Afire’, ‘Barbie’, ‘Oppenheimer’ - 8/18/23
Review: ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ - 8/11/23
Review: ‘Afire’ - 8/3/23
Review: ‘Talk to Me’ - 7/25/23
Review: ‘Oppenheimer’ - 7/20/23
Review: ‘Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One’ - 7/12/23
Review: ‘The Taking’ - 7/11/23
The Best Films of 2023 (So Far) - 7/5/23
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘Black Girl’, ‘Asteroid City’, ‘Elemental’, ‘Past Lives’ - 6/23/23
Review: ‘Past Lives’ - 6/22/23
Review: ‘Asteroid City’ - 6/19/23
Review: ‘In the Dusk’ - 5/24/23
Review: ‘Motion Detected’ - 5/18/23
Review: ‘De Humani Corporis Fabrica’ - 5/9/23
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘Beau Is Afraid’, ‘The Plains’, ‘Renfield’, ‘Tori and Lokita’ - 4/23/23
Review: ‘Beau Is Afraid’ - 4/20/23
Double-Take: ‘Beef’ - 4/13/23
Review: ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ - 4/6/23
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘Charlie’s Angels’, ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’, ‘Rye Lane’- 4/4/23
Review: ‘Enys Men’ - 3/28/23
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘Certain Women’ Part 2, ‘Boston Strangler’, ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’, ‘Scream VI’ - 3/24/23
Review: ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ - 3/22/23
Review: ‘Godland’ - 3/8/23
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘Twilight’ - 3/7/23
Review: ‘Pacifiction’ - 2/28/23
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘You Won’t Be Alone’, ‘Attachment’, ‘Huesera: The Bone Woman’, ‘The Outwaters’ - 2/23/23
Review: ‘No Bears’ - 2/21/23
Review: ‘Huesera: The Bone Woman’ - 2/14/23
Review: ‘Skinamarink’ - 2/8/23
Review: ‘Knock at the Cabin’ - 2/2/23
The Take-Up Podcast: ‘Stars at Noon’ - 1/27/23
The Best Films of 2022 - 1/26/23
The Lens Articles and Podcast Episodes
The Lens Podcast: ‘Emily the Criminal’ - 1/16/23
The Lens Podcast: ‘Strawberry Mansion’ - 12/30/22
The Lens Podcast: ‘After Yang’, ‘Avatar: The Way of Water, ‘She Said’ - 12/14/22
Review: ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ - 12/9/22
Review: ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’ - 11/21/22
SLIFF Spotlight: ‘Holy Spider’ - 11/8/22
SLIFF Spotlight: ‘Nanny’ - 11/4/22
SLIFF Spotlight: ‘Memories of My Father’ - 11/2/22
The Lens Podcast: ‘Sisters’, ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’, ‘All Jacked Up and Full of Worms’ - 11/1/22
The Lens Podcast: ‘The Intern’, ‘Stars at Noon’, ‘Decision to Leave’, ‘Piggy’ - 10/26/22
Feature: Kill the Flame: The Burden of Grief in ‘Assassin’s Creed Origins’ - 10/20/22
Review: ‘Tar’ - 10/17/22
Review: ‘Hellraiser’ - 10/5/22
The Lens Podcast: ‘Julie & Julia’, ‘Do Revenge’, ‘Athena’ - 10/4/22
Review: ‘Smile’ - 9/30/22
The Lens Recommends: ‘House of Bamboo’ - 9/21/22
The Lens Podcast: ‘The Parent Trap’ (1998), ‘Pearl’, ‘Speak No Evil’, ‘Saloum’ - 9/19/22
Review: ‘Speak No Evil’ - 9/15/22
Review: ‘True Things’ - 9/7/22
The Lens Podcast: ‘Heartburn’, ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’, ‘The Good Boss’ - 9/6/22
The Lens Podcast: ‘A Love Song’, ‘Orphan: First Kill’ - 8/24/22
Review: ‘A Love Song’ - 8/17/22
Review: ‘Prey’ - 8/3/22
Review: ‘Resurrection’ - 7/28/22
The Lens Podcast: ‘Nope’ - 7/26/22
Review: ‘Nope’ - 7/20/22
Review: ‘Flux Gourmet’ - 7/13/22
The Lens Podcast: ‘Mad God’, ‘Watcher’, ‘Flux Gourmet’ - 7/12/22
Feature: Love Among the Ruins: Romance in ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ - 7/7/22
The Lens Podcast: ‘Dancer in the Dark’, ‘Hit the Road’ - 6/29/22
Review: ‘Hit the Road’ - 6/29/22
Review: ‘Lux Æterna’ - 6/21/22
Review: ‘Neptune Frost’ - 6/14/22
Review: ‘X’ - 6/7/22
Review: ‘Benediction’ - 6/2/22
The Lens Podcast: ‘Peppermint Frappe’, ‘Hatching’, ‘The Innocents’ - 5/31/22
Review: ‘Montana Story’ - 5/26/22
The Lens Recommends: ‘Severance’ - 5/19/22
Review: ‘Happening’ - 5/11/22
Review: ‘Reflection’ - 5/4/22
The Lens Podcast: ‘Psycho’ (1998), ‘Playground’, ‘Father’ - 4/29/22
Review: ‘Father’ - 4/27/22
The Lens Podcast: ‘Happy Together’, ‘The Northman’ - 4/19/22
Review: ‘The Northman’ - 4/19/22
Review: ‘Dual’ - 4/12/22
The Lens Podcast: ‘Bound’, ‘Everything Everywhere All at One’, ‘You Are Not My Mother’ - 4/5/22
Review: ‘Barbarians’ - 3/29/22
Review: ‘Servants’ - 3/24/22
The Lens Podcast: ‘The Living End’, ‘Fresh’, ‘Master’ - 3/22/22
Review: ‘Lingui, The Sacred Bonds’ - 3/14/22
The Lens Podcast: ‘The Scary of Sixty-First’, ‘Texas Chainsaw Massace’, ‘Kimi’ - 2/22/22
Review: ‘Hellbender’ - 2/22/22
Review: ‘A Banquet’ - 2/17/22
The Lens Podcast: 2022 Oscar Nominations - 2/10/22
Review: ‘Catch the Fair One’ - 2/8/22
The Lens Podcast: ‘Cusp’ - 2/7/22
The Lens Recommends: ‘Yellowjackets’ - 1/27/22
The Lens Podcast: ‘Saint Maud’, ‘The House’, ‘Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes’ - 1/24/2022
Review: ‘The Whaler Boy’ - 1/12/22
Feature: The Best Films of 2021 - 1/7/22
Review: ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ - 12/21/21
Review: ‘Nightmare Alley’ - 12/14/21
Review: ‘Benedetta’ - 12/1/21
Feature: Why ‘Deathloop’ Is the Game of the Year - 11/17/21]
SLIFF Spotlight: ‘The Woman Who Ran’ - 11/8/21
Review: ‘Antlers’ - 10/28/21
Review: ‘Dune’ - 10/19/21
Review: ‘Faya Dayi’ - 10/11/21
Review: ‘I’m Your Man’ - 9/29/21
Review: ‘Days’ - 9/15/21
Review: ‘Candyman’ - 8/26/21
The Lens Recommends: ‘Harley Quinn’ - 8/12/21
Review: The ‘Fear Street’ Trilogy - 8/4/21
Review: ‘The Green Knight’ - 7/28/21
The Lens Recommends: ‘Lisey’s Story’ - 7/23/21
Review: ‘Pig’ - 7/15/21
Review: ‘Dachra’ - 7/8/21
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for June 2021 - 6/30/21
Review: ‘Gaia’ - 6/22/21
Review: ‘Les Nôtres’ - 6/17/21
Review: ‘The Amusement Park’ - 6/7/21
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for May 2021 - 6/3/21
Review: ‘Two Lottery Tickets’ - 5/27/21
Review: ‘The Killing of Two Lovers’ - 5/18/21
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for April 2021 - 5/5/21
Review: ‘Sisters with Transistors’ - 4/28/21
Review: ‘At Night Comes Wolves’ - 4/23/21
Golden Anniversaries: ‘Wake in Fight’ - 4/13/21
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for March 2021 - 3/30/21
Review: ‘The Fever’ - 3/22/21
Review: ‘The World to Come’ - 3/16/21
Review: ‘A Shape of Things to Come’ - 3/11/21
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for February 2021 - 3/1/21
Review: ‘I Care a Lot’ - 2/23/21
Review: ‘Atlantis’ - 2/17/21
Review: ‘Saint Maud’ - 2/8/21
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for January 2021 - 2/1/21
Review: ‘Identifying Features’ - 1/26/21
Review: ‘Acasa, My Home’ - 1/20/21
The Best Films of 2020 - 1/18/21
Better Things: The Pop Culture That Got Us Through 2020 - 1/11/21
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for December 2020 - 1/4/21
The Best Horror Films of 2020 - 1/1/21
Review: ‘The Wolf House’ - 12/22/20
Review: ‘Another Round’ - 12/17/20
Review: ‘The Twentieth Century’ - 12/8/20
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for November 2020 - 12/6/20
Review: ‘Lovers Rock’ - 12/1/20
SLIFF Spotlight: ‘God of the Piano’ - 11/17/20
SLIFF Spotlight: ‘Lucky Grandma’ - 11/11/20
SLIFF Spotlight: ‘God Save the Wings’ - 11/7/20
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for October 2020 - 11/2/20
Review: ‘Time’ - 10/16/20
Review: ‘The Swerve’ - 10/8/20
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for September 2020 - 10/1/20
The Lens Recommends: ‘The Outsider’ - 9/24/20
Review: ‘Space Dogs’ - 9/17/20
The Lens Recommends: ‘The Boys’ - 9/9/20
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for August 2020 - 9/3/20
Review: ‘Entwined’ - 8/27/20
Review: ‘Sputnik’ - 8/13/20
Review: ‘She Dies Tomorrow’ - 8/6/20
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for July 2020 - 7/30/20
Review: ‘The Rental’ - 7/23/20
Review: ‘Relic’ - 7/15/20
Review: ‘Guest of Honour’ - 7/10/20
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for June 2020 - 7/6/20
More Ghosts Than People: ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’ and the Art of the Prequel - 7/2/20
Review: ‘House of Hummingbird’ - 6/26/20
Review: ‘Hammer’ - 6/18/20
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for May 2020 - 6/5/20
Review: ‘The Vast of Night’ - 6/4/20
Review: ‘Joan of Arc’ - 5/28/20
Review: ‘Rewind’ - 5/22/20
The Lens Recommends: ‘Servant’ - 5/12/20
The Lens Recommends: ‘Devs’ - 5/6/20
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for April 2020 - 5/1/20
Review: ‘True History of the Kelly Gang’ - 4/24/20
Review: ‘We Summon the Darkness’ - 4/17/20
Review: ‘Tigertail’ - 4/10/20
Review: ‘The Other Lamb’ - 4/3/20
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for March 2020 - 3/27/20
Review: ‘Vivarium’ - 3/23/20
Review: ‘First Cow’ - 3/17/20
Review: ‘Goldie’ - 3/11/20
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for February 2020 - 2/27/20
Review: ‘The Invisible Man’ - 2/26/20
Review: ‘Birds of Prey’ - 2/11/20
Review: ‘Gretel & Hansel’ - 2/4/20
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for January 2020 - 1/31/20
Review: ‘Color Out of Space’ - 1/28/20
Review: ‘I Lost My Body’ - 1/23/20
Review: ‘Invisible Life’ - 1/15/20
Review: ‘1917’ - 1/8/20
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for December 2019 - 1/3/20
The Best Films of 2019 - 12/31/19
Every Horror Film of 2019, Ranked - 12/24/19
Review: ‘Uncut Gems’ - 12/23/19
Review: ‘A Hidden Life’ - 12/19/19
Review: ‘Black Christmas’ - 12/16/19
Review: ‘Knives Out’ - 11/26/19
Review: ‘Parasite’ - 11/20/19
SLIFF Spotlight: ‘Latter Day Jew’ - 11/8/19
SLIFF Spotlight: ‘My Name Is Pedro’ - 11/7/19
Review: ‘Dotor Sleep’ - 11/6/19
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for October 2019 - 10/31/19
Review: ‘The Lighthouse’ - 10/23/19
Review: ‘Dolemite Is My Name’ - 10/16/19
Review: ‘Memory: The Origins of Alien’ - 10/10/19
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for September 2019 - 10/8/19
Review: ‘Tigers Are Not Afraid’ - 10/4/19
Review: ‘Joker’ - 10/2/19
Review: ‘Ad Astra’ - 9/19/19
Review: ‘It Chapter Two’ - 9/12/19
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for August 2019 - 9/3/19
Golden Anniversaries: ‘Midnight Cowboy’ - 8/27/19
Review: ‘Ready or Not’ - 8/21/19
Review: ‘The Nightingale’ - 8/13/19
Review: ‘The Kitchen’ - 8/7/19
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for July 2019 - 8/2/19
Review: ‘Share’ - 7/31/19
Review: ‘The Farewell’ - 7/26/19
Review: ‘The Art of Self-Defense’ - 7/17/19
Review: ‘Transit’ - 7/10/19
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for June 2019 - 7/5/19
Review: ‘Midsommar’ - 7/2/19
Review: ‘Rolling Thunder Review: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese’ - 6/18/19
Review: ‘Shadow’ - 6/12/19
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for May 2019 - 6/3/19
Review: ‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’ - 5/30/19
Review: ‘Booksmart’ - 5/23/19
Review: ‘Under the Silver Lake’ - 5/9/19
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for April 2019 - 5/1/19
Review: ‘Avengers: Endgame’ - 4/25/19
Review: ‘The Curse of La Llorona’ - 4/18/19
Review: ‘Pet Sematary’ - 4/4/19
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for March 2019 - 4/2/19
Review: ‘The Mustang’ - 3/28/19
Review: ‘Us’ - 3/21/19
Review: ‘Captain Marvel’ - 3/7/19
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for February 2019 - 2/26/19
Review: ‘How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’ - 2/21/19
Review: ‘Happy Death Day 2U’ - 2/13/19
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for January 2019 - 1/31/19
The Best Films of 2018: The Roundtable - 1/28/19
The Lens Recommends: ‘Alphaville’ - 1/22/19
Review: ‘Glass’ - 1/17/19
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for December 2018 - 1/4/19
Every Horror Film of 2018, Ranked - 12/27/18
The Best Films of 2018: The Lists - 12/26/18
Review: ‘Roma’ - 12/19/18
Review: ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ - 12/12/18
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for November 2018 - 11/29/18
Review: ‘At Eternity’s Gate’ - 11/20/18
SLIFF Spotlight: ‘Chasing Portraits’ - 11/8/18
SLIFF Spotlight: ‘The House, the Hand and the Hatchet’ - 11/7/18
SLIFF Spotlight: ‘Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story’ - 11/4/18
SLIFF Spotlight: ‘Good Manners’ - 11/1/18
Review: ‘Suspiria’ - 10/30/18
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for October 2018 - 10/29/18
Review: ‘Halloween’ - 10/18/18
Review: ‘First Man’ - 10/10/18
Review: ‘Venom’ - 10/4/18
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for September 2018 - 9/28/18
Review: ‘Blaze’ - 9/27/18
Review: ‘Lizzie’ - 9/20/18
Review: ‘A Simple Favor’ - 9/13/18
Review: 'The Nun' - 9/6/18
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for August 2018 - 9/5/18
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for July 2018 - 8/2/18
Review: 'Eighth Grade' - 7/25/18
Review: 'Unfriended: Dark Web' -7/19/18
Review: 'Sorry to Bother You' - 7/11/18
Review: 'Leave No Trace' - 7/3/18
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for June 2018 - 6/28/18
Recap: 'Westworld', "The Passenger" - 6/26/18
Recap: 'Westworld', "Vanishing Point" - 6/21/18
Recap: 'Westworld', "Kiksuya" - 6/12/18
Review: 'Hereditary' - 6/6/18
Recap: 'Westworld', "Les Écorchés" - 6/4/18
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for May 2018 - 6/1/18
Review: 'First Reformed' - 5/30/18
Recap: 'Westworld', "Phase Space" - 5/29/18
Review: 'Solo: A Star Wars Story' - 5/23/18
Recap: 'Westworld', "Akane No Mai" - 5/22/18
Review: 'Revenge' - 5/16/18
Review: 'Lu Over the Wall' - 5/9/18
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for April 2018 - 5/3/18
Recap: 'Westworld', "Reunion" - 5/1/18
Review: 'Avengers: Infinity War' - 4/25/18
Recap: 'Westworld', "Journey Into Night" - 4/24/18
Review: 'A Quiet Place' - 4/6/18
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for March 2018 - 4/3/18
Review: 'Isle of Dogs' - 3/28/18
Review: 'The Death of Stalin' - 3/22/18
Review: 'Thoroughbreds' - 3/9/18
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for February 2018 - 3/2/18
Review: 'Red Sparrow' - 3/1/18
Review: 'Annihilation' - 2/23/18
Review: 'Black Panther' - 2/15/18
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for January 2018 - 2/1/18
Review: 'Hostiles' - 1/25/18
Review: 'The Final Year' - 1/18/18
Review: 'Phantom Thread' - 1/12/18
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for December 2017 - 1/5/18
The Best Films of 2017 - 1/4/18
Every Horror Film of 2017, Ranked - 12/25/17
Review: 'Call Me by Your Name' - 12/21/17
Review: 'The Shape of Water' - 12/14/17
Review: 'The Disaster Artist' - 12/7/17
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for November 2017 - 11/30/17
Review: 'Justice League' - 11/17/17
Review: 'The Square' - 11/16/17
Review: 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' - 11/10/17
Review: 'Wonderstruck' - 11/9/17
Streaming Bloody Murder: Horror VOD Postmortem for October 2017 - 11/3/17
Review: 'Thor: Ragnarok' - 11/2/17
Review: 'The Florida Project' - 10/26/17
Review: 'The Snowman' - 10/20/17
Review: 'Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton' - 10/19/17
Review: 'The Foreigner' - 10/13/17
Review: 'Marshall' - 10/12/17
Review: 'Blade Runner 2049' - 10/6/17
Review: 'The Mountain Between Us' - 10/6/17
St. Louis Magazine Articles
Interview: Mike Gabrawy - 10/12/17
Review: Good Time - 8/23/17
Review: Annabelle: Creation - 8/9/17
Review: City of Ghosts - 8/3/17
Review: A Ghost Story - 7/28/17
Review: Dunkirk - 7/20/17
Review: War for the Planet of the Apes - 7/14/17
Review: The Big Sick - 7/5/17
Review: Baby Driver - 6/29/17
Review: Obit - 6/22/17
Review: Cars 3 - 6/15/17
Interview: Kristin Archibald - 6/8/17
Review: It Comes at Night - 6/8/17
Review: Wonder Woman - 5/31/17
Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales - 5/25/17
Review: Alien: Covenant - 5/17/17
Review: A Quiet Passion - 5/10/17
Review: LA 92 - 4/27/17
Review: Graduation - 4/26/17
Review: The Lost City of Z - 4/20/17
Review: Frantz - 4/6/17
African Film Festival 2017: Children of the Mountain - 3/30/17
Review: Personal Shopper - 3/23/17
Review: Kong: Skull Island - 3/8/17
Review: Logan - 3/2/17
Review: Get Out - 2/22/17
Interview: Michael Buegg - 2/21/17
Review: A Cure for Wellness - 2/16/17
Review: The LEGO Batman Movie - 2/9/17
Review: I Am Not Your Negro - 2/2/17
Review: Julieta - 1/25/17
Review: Split - 1/19/17
Review: Silence - 1/11/17
Review: Hidden Figures - 1/4/17
The Best Films of 2016 - 12/30/16
Every Horror Movie of 2016, Ranked - 12/23/16
Review: Jackie - 12/21/16
Review: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - 12/13/16
Review: Miss Sloane - 12/8/16
Review: Manchester by the Sea - 12/2/16
Review: Moana - 11/23/16
SLIFF 2016: Phantom Boy - 11/11/16
SLIFF 2016: The Confessions - 11/11/16
Review: Arrival - 11/10/16
SLIFF: Long Live Death - 11/9/16
SLIFF : After the Storm - 11/9/16
SLIFF 2016: The Holly Kane Experiment - 11/7/16
SLIFF 2016: Old Stone - 11/6/16
Review: Doctor Strange - 11/5/16
SLIFF 2016: Two - 11/4/16
SLIFF 2016: Staying Vertical - 11/3/16
SLIFF 2016: Demimonde - 11/3/16
SLIFF 2016: Neither Heaven Nor Earth - 11/1/16
Review: Certain Women - 10/28/16
Interview: Craig Atkinson - 10/26/16
Review: Ouija: Origin of Evil - 10/21/16
Review: American Honey - 10/13/16
Review: The Birth of a Nation - 10/5/16
Review: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - 9/29/16
Review: The Magnificent Seven - 9/21/16
Review: Blair Witch - 9/15/16
Review: Our Little Sister - 9/13/16
WUFS: Nuts! - 9/8/16
Review: The Light Between Oceans - 9/1/16
Review: Don't Breathe - 8/25/16
Review: Kubo and the Two Strings - 8/17/16
Review: Suicide Squad - 8/4/16
Review: Jason Bourne - 7/28/16
Review: Lights Out - 7/21/16
Review: Ghostbusters - 7/14/16
Review: Wiener-Dog - 7/6/16
Review: Swiss Army Man - 6/29/16
Review: Free State of Jones - 6/23/16
Review: Finding Dory - 6/16/16
Review: Warcraft - 6/9/16
Review: Sunset Song - 6/2/16
Review: X-Men: Apocalypse - 5/26/16
Review: A Bigger Splash - 5/18/16
Review: Money Monster - 5/12/16
Review: Captain America: Civil War - 5/4/16
Review: Green Room - 4/27/16
WUFS: Speed Sisters - 4/20/16
Review: Criminal - 4/13/16
Review: Everybody Wants Some!! - 4/6/16
WUFS: Approaching the Elephant - 4/1/16
African Film Festival 2016: Ayanda - 3/31/16
Review: Rednecks + Culchies - 3/21/16
Review: 10 Cloverfield Lane - 3/11/16
True/False 2016 - Part 2 3/10/16
True/False 2016 - Part 1 3/8/16
Review: Zootopia 3/3/16
Review: Triple 9 2/24/16
Review: The Witch 2/17/16
Review: Deadpool - 2/10/16
Review: Hail, Caesar! - 2/3/16
Review: Kung Fu Panda 3 1/27/16
Review: The 5th Wave 1/22/16
Review: Anomalisa 1/13/16
Review: The Revenant 1/6/16
The Best Films of 2015 12/31/15
Every Horror Movie of 2015, Ranked 12/25/15
Review: The Hateful Eight 12/23/15
Four Awesome Star Wars Works to Devour Before (or After) You See The Force Awakens 12/18/15
WUFS: Killing Them Safely 12/16/15
Review: Macbeth 12/11/15
Review: Trumbo 12/7/15
Review: Creed 11/24/15
Review: Brooklyn 11/18/15
SLIFF 2015: Cemetery of Splendour 11/13/15
SLIFF 2015: My Friend Victoria 11/13/15
Review: The 33 11/13/15
SLIFF 2015: Montedoro 11/12/15
SLIFF 2015: Sea Fog 11/10/15
SLIFF 2015: Marshland 11/9/15
SLIFF 2015: Kidnap Capital 11/9/15
SLIFF 2015: The Invitation 11/8/15
SLIFF 2015: Jasmine 11/7/15
Review: Spectre 11/6/15
SLIFF 2015: Red Mountain 11/6/15
SLIFF 2015: Deep Web 11/5/15
Review: Truth 10/28/15
Review: Steve Jobs 10/21/15
Review: Crimson Peak 10/14/15
Review: Time Out of Mind 10/8/15
Review: Sicario 10/5/15
Review: Finders Keepers 9/30/15
Interview: Walker Deibel 9/30/15
Review: The New Girlfriend 9/23/15
Review: Black Mass 9/16/15
WUFS: Güeros 9/10/15
WUFS: The Look of Silence 9/2/15
Review: Mistress America 8/27/15
Review: Jimmy's Hall 8/20/15
Review: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 8/13/15
Review: Southpaw 7/22/15
Review: Ant-Man 7/15/15
Review: Self/less 7/9/15
Review: The Overnight 7/1/15
Review: Inside Out 6/18/15
Review: Jurassic World 6/11/15
Review: Aloha 5/28/15
Review: Good Kill 5/21/15
Review: Mad Max: Fury Road 5/14/15
Review: Ex Machina 4/24/15
Review: True Story 4/16/15
Review: Seymour: An Introduction 4/10/15
Review: White God 4/7/15
African Film Festival 2015: Veve 3/27/15
Review: '71 3/12/15
Review: Focus 2/26/15
Review: Song of the Sea 2/25/15
Review: Two Days, One Night 2/13/15
Review: Jupiter Ascending 2/6/15
Review: A Most Violent Year 1/30/15
WUFS: 20,000 Days on Earth 1/22/15
Review: American Sniper 1/16/15
Review: Inherent Vice 1/8/15
The Best Films of 2014 12/31/14
Review: Unbroken 12/25/14
Review: Point and Shoot 12/11/14
Interview: Doug Pray 11/20/14
SLIFF 2014: The Liberator 11/17/14
Review: Interstellar 11/5/14
Review: Nightcrawler 10/31/14
Review: Birdman 10/24/14
Review: The Green Prince 10/17/14
Review: Kill the Messenger 10/10/14
Review: Gone Girl 10/3/14
Review: The Boxtrolls 9/26/14
WUFS: The Zero Theorem 9/19/14
Review: The Drop 9/12/14
WUFS: Code Black 9/4/14
Review: The Trip to Italy 8/29/14
Review: Calvary 8/15/14
Review: Boyhood 8/1/14
Review: Lucy 7/25/14
WUFS: Antarctica: A Year on Ice 7/17/14
WUFS: Go Down Death 7/2/14
Review: The Rover 6/20/14
Review: Edge of Tomorrow 6/6/14
Review: Maleficent 5/30/14
Review: God's Pocket 5/16/14
Review: Fading Gigolo 5/9/14
Review: Finding Vivian Maier 4/25/14
Review: Transcendence 4/18/14
Review: Ernest & Célestine 4/11/14
Review: Nymphomaniac 4/4/14
Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel 3/21/14
Review: Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me 3/12/14
WUFS: Dear Mr. Watterson 3/7/14
True/False 2014 3/4/14
Review: Non-Stop 2/28/14
Review: Pompeii 2/21/14
Review: RoboCop 2/12/14
Review: The Monuments Men 2/7/14
Review: Labor Day 1/31/14
WUFS: American Promise 1/24/14
WUFS: Escape From Tomorrow 1/17/14
Review: Her 1/10/14
The Best Films of 2013 12/31/13
Review: The Wolf of Wall Street 12/25/13
Review: Inside Llewyn Davis 12/20/13
Review: Out of the Furnace 12/6/13
Review: Nebraska 11/26/13
SLIFF 2013: All Roads Lead 11/19/13
Review: Dallas Buyers Club 11/15/13
Review: 12 Years a Slave 11/1/13
Review: The Fifth Estate 10/18/13
Review: The Summit 10/11/13
Review: Sign Painters 10/8/13
Review: Gravity 10/4/13
WUFS: Mister Rogers & Me 9/20/13
Review: Short Term 12 9/13/13
Review: Austenland 9/6/13
Review: Ain't Them Bodies Saints 8/30/13
Review: In a World... 8/23/13
Review: The Butler 8/16/13
Review: Elysium 8/9/13
Review: Blackfish 8/2/13
Review: Fruitvale Station 7/26/13
Review: The Conjuring 7/19/13
Review: Pacific Rim 7/12/13
Review: The Lone Ranger 7/3/13
Review: Dirty Wars 6/28/13
Review: The Bling Ring 6/21/13
Review: Man of Steel 6/14/13
QFest 2013: I Am Divine 6/5/13
Review: Frances Ha 5/24/13
Review: Star Trek Into Darkness 5/17/13
Review: The Great Gatsby 5/10/13
Review: Iron Man 3 5/3/13
Review: Mud 4/26/13
Review: To the Wonder 4/19/13
Review: Evil Dead 4/5/13
Review: Yossi 2/22/13
Review: John Dies at the End 2/8/13
WUFS: Classic Widescreen Cinema 1/25/13
Review: Zero Dark Thirty 1/11/13
The Best Films of 2012 12/31/12
Review: Django Unchained 12/25/12
Review: This Is 40 12/21/12
Review: Holy Motors 11/30/12
Review: Anna Karenina 11/21/12
SLIFF 2012: The Movie Orgy 11/16/12
Review: Skyfall 11/9/12
Review: Flight 11/2/12
Review: Cloud Atlas 10/26/12
Review: Hello I Must Be Going 10/19/12
Review: Argo 10/12/12
Interview: Jennifer Lynch 10/1/12
Review: Looper 9/28/12
Review: The Master 9/21/12
Review: For a Good Time Call... 9/14/12
Review: Cosmopolis 9/7/12
Review: Lawless 8/31/12
Review: Killer Joe 8/24/12
Review: Elena 8/10/12
Review: Total Recall 8/3/12
Review: Pink Ribbons, Inc. 7/20/12
Review: Natural Selection 7/13/12
Review: Turn Me On, Dammit! 7/6/12
Review: A Cat in Paris 6/29/12
Review: Polisse 6/15/12
Review: Prometheus 6/8/12
Review: Goodbye First Love 5/25/12
Review: Headhunters 5/18/12
Review: The Fairy 5/4/12
Review: Elles 4/27/12
QFest 2012: My Best Day 4/20/12
Review: The Kid with a Bike 4/13/12
Review: Chico and Rita 4/6/12
Review: The Forgiveness of Blood 3/30/12
Review: Addiction Incorporated 3/23/12
Review: John Carter 3/9/12
True/False 2012: Day Four 3/5/12
True/False 2012: Day Three 3/4/12
True/False 2012: Day Two 3/3/12
True/False 2012: Day One 3/2/12
Review: The Conquest 2/24/12
Review: My Reincarnation 2/10/12
Blu-ray Release: Godzilla 1/27/12
Review: Shame 1/20/12
Review: Contraband 1/13/12
WUFS: The Hoodlum Priest 1/6/12
The Best Films of 2011 12/31/11
Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 12/23/11
Interview: Steven Spielberg 12/1/11
Review: Melancholia 11/21/11
SLIFF 2011: The Last Mountain 11/11/11
SLIFF 2011: A Useful Life 11/10/11
SLIFF 2011: Bubba Moon Face 11/9/11
Review: The Mill and the Cross 10/14/11
WUFS: Q: The Winged Serpent 9/30/11
Review: Griff the Invisible 9/16/11
Review: The Tree 9/2/11
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Review: Beats, Rhymes & Life 8/5/11
Review: Viva Riva! 7/22/11
Double-Take: The Tree of Life 7/10/11
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Review: Sound It Out 4/21/11
Review: Certified Copy 4/6/11
Review: Biutiful 2/14/11
Review: Blue Valentine 1/19/11
The Best Films of 2010 12/30/10
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SLIFF 2010: How I Ended This Summer 11/15/10
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