Film Reviews and Features
My most recent film reviews, book reviews, and features for Spectrum Culture can be found HERE
My most recent film reviews for Flickering Myth can be found HERE
Here are some recent favorites:
Review of Peter Selgin’s Duplicity for DIAGRAM
Review of J. Robert Lennon’s Let Me Think for Colorado Review
Review of Paul Lisicky’s Later
Film Review of Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Review of Elif Shafak’s 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
Review of C Pam Zhang’s How Much of These Hills is Gold
Retrospective on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Film Review of Thousand Pieces of Gold
Review of Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Review of Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
Criminally Underrated: 13 Going on 30
Review of The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Review of Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House
Revisit of The Year of Living Dangerously
The Best Fight Scene Ever: Kill Bill: Volume 2
Review of Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein
Review of André Aciman’s Find Me
Film Review of Memory: The Origins of Alien
Film Review of Hagazussa: A Heathen’s Curse
Review of Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer
The Best Movie Monster Ever: The Xenomorph Queen from Aliens
Retrospective of Agnès Varda’s Uncle Yanco and Black Panthers
Film Review of A Dark Song
Film Review of Get Out
Film Review of A Monster Calls
Film Review of Moonlight
Review of Silas House’s Southernmost
Review of Philip Dean Walker’s Read by Strangers
Review of Matthew Binder’s The Absolved
Review of Otto Penzler’s The Big Book of Female Detectives
Review of Kelly Barnhill’s Dreadful Young Ladies
Review of Paul La Farge’s The Night Ocean
Review of Edmund White’s The Unpunished Vice
Rick Benger’s Once Upon a Pancake. Spectrum Culture (July 2018).
Review of Matt Haig’s How to Stop Time
Review of Karen Tidbeck’s Jagannath
Review of Madeline Miller’s Circe
Review of Matthew Griffin's Hide
Review of Dan Vyleta's Smoke
Review of Kristen Bakis's Lives of the Monster Dogs
Review of Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing.
Review of Jac Jemc's The Grip of It
Review of Robert Moor's On Trails
Review of Kanishk Tharoor's Swimmer Among the Stars
Review of Alexia Kannas' Deep Red
Review of Cara Hoffman's Running
Review of J. Robert Lennon's Broken River
Review of Dominic Smith's The Last Painting of Sara De Vos
Review of Ben Tanzer's Be Cool
Review of Michael Cunningham's A Wild Swan
Review of Philip Dean Walker's At Danceteria and Other Stories
Review of Edmundo Paz Soldán's Norte
Review of Building Fires in the Snow
Review of Anita Agnihotri's Seventeen
Review of Zakes Mda's Rachel's Blue
Review of John McCarthy's Ghost County
Review of Matthew Binder's High in the Streets