Editor-in-Chief of The Film Stage.
Favorites = last four new-to-me 4.5+ films watched.
Jennifer Connelly on that sailboat though.
The biggest jump in quality in a sequel… ever?
After personal trauma, a protagonist retreats to a secluded location for solace and inner reconciliation only to be further haunted. The set-up is familiar to many a horror film, but with Men being an Alex Garland creation, something more peculiar lurks behind this surface. A blend of the compact thrills of Ex Machina and the surreal oddities of Annihilation, his latest is delightfully inscrutable in its strangest moments yet thematically simplistic and disappointingly misshapen on the whole. Using misogyny—both subtly…
Only Steven Spielberg could make a shot of someone standing in a puddle one of the most beautiful images of the year.