SELECTED FILM WRITING

Originally published via The Untitled Magazine on February 13th, 2025. I want to take you back to the seventies, to a time when a select few of America’s film critics operated like kingmakers, when their opinions could make or break … Read More

Originally published via the Untitled Magazine on December 3rd, 2020. Mank is a phenomenal piece of cinema, but it is not a very entertaining movie. What David Fincher has achieved is a sweeping parlor trick that satirizes the majesty of Hollywood’s … Read More

Originally published in the Untitled Magazine on October 21st, 2020. During a 2017 interview with Berlinale Talents, 40-year-old writer/director Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, The Bad Batch) described the year after she had graduated from UCLA as … Read More

I went to see Batman Begins alone in an empty theater that had a max cap of fewer than 300 seats. I knew nothing about movies and even less about directors. I made no connection between Christopher Nolan and the … Read More

Originally published via the Untitled Magazine on February 15th, 2015. Assuming you have seen the one-minute Jurassic World trailer that ran during the Super Bowl – and, let’s be honest, who hasn’t? – you know it opens on a clip featuring a five-ton Mosasaurus swallowing a great … Read More

Originally published in the Untitled Magazine on December 15, 2014. The story of Sissy Spacek is a story based on family. It is the story of a poor girl, from Texas, a shy girl, a homecoming queen. It is the … Read More

Originally published via the Untitled Magazine on October 22nd, 2014. There comes a point in every budding director’s career, usually a few movies in, where the circumstances align to allow for a breakthrough. The backing is there, the level of … Read More

Don Draper is a philanderer. He philanders. And though the reasons for his philandering are varied, Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner may have put his finger on it when he said, “I think Don likes longing more than he likes … Read More … Read More

OK, so there’s this house, see, and it’s like waaaaay out in the wilderness, right? I mean like sooooo far out that you can’t even get, like, cell phone service or internet access, y’dig? And so, then there’s, like, this … Read More … Read More