Associate Film Editor, IndieWire. Filmmaker and actor. Views are fully my own, and based on whims and mood.
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Dumb Money 2023
Scratches an itch. Too many characters spread out, doesn’t really explain what actually happened very well. Derivative of far better movies. But entertaining enough.
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The Lost Boys 1987
Homoerotic teen boy vampires. Joel Schumacher threads the needle brilliantly. It would be easier to enjoy if I didn’t know what was happening to the Coreys at the time, but I think Schumacher’s hands are clean at least. Still, great fun with the teen vampire trope. Hot brooding guy becomes something he doesn’t understand but can’t help, an obvious coming out metaphor. Sexy bleached blonde Kiefer Sutherland is great. Young Dianne Weist too, has she just been playing moms since she was 30? And fun to see young Edward Hermann (now of Gilmore Girls fame).
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From Russia with Love 1963
Lesbian subtext up the wazoo! Number 3 is iconic. That first scene when she vets the Russian Bond girl, it's very obvious. Not even subtext I guess.
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God's Own Country 2017
A rugged young Englishman and a gentle Romanian migrant worker find intimacy atop the lonesome hills of Northern Yorkshire in “God’s Own Country,” Francis Lee’s quietly remarkable debut feature. Embittered by his isolated existence, Johnny (Josh O’Connor) softens upon meeting Gheorghe (Alec Secareanu), who has much to teach him, and not just how to delicately breathe life into a newborn lamb. Such explicit scenes of daily farm life give the film documentary-like potency, elevating it far beyond conventional romantic drama — with no "I can't quit you" moment to speak of.
