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2023

★★★ Watched 08 Jun 2025

A lot going on in this doc, maybe too much. As a piece of New York City and rock history it's pretty great. Bruce and Bon Jovi and Patti Smith sit down and reminisce. So do Simon and Garfunkel. Separately.

As a character study of a guy who loves music and musicians, and can't let go of the past, it's all right. And as a business story about the corporatization of rock, it's pretty thin. That frustrates me because that's maybe the most interesting angle.

2025

★★½ Watched 07 Jun 2025

I didn't the see the play on Broadway, can't afford to, but can applaud its ideas about speaking truth to power and its experiment of trying to broaden its audience. 

CNN tried something new. It took a provocative stand. "All the reasonable people took a plane to Europe and left us behind." But this was not great television. Full of pauses and dead space, faces in shadow or shot from a block away. It's an alright proof of concept.

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2023

★★½ 1

The short doesn't trust its actor to convey the emotion it's going for, so it leans on music for that extra oomph even if it's not needed. It left me feeling manipulated.

2024

★★★★ 2

Steven C. Miller makes B movies at an A level. He's the real deal. With the right material and a decent budget he could be another Carpenter or De Palma.

More broadly speaking, 2024 has been the most exciting and vital year in horror in years. The Substance, Terrifier 3, Longlegs, Smile 2, Immaculate, Abigail, In a Violent Nature, Cuckoo, Oddity, Exhuma, Heretic, Blink Twice, Caddo Lake, Azrael, Late Night with the Devil, Alien Romulus, The First Omen, Strange Darling... What a breadth of offerings.

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