pleasure to be back on the @lwlies.com Truth & Movies podcast, talking The Long Walk and the longer trudge that is Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, a sequel to one of my all-time favourites that flirts with a certain infamous two-word review.

🚨new video essay 🚨

How deep is your love - and memory - of Saturday Night Fever?

The original is closer to Mean Streets than Grease, but that’s not how most people think of it…

How Saturday Night Fever was remodelled for a PG audience
for @lwlies.com.

Full video here:
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A highly personal look at three films that get more resonant and poignant as time goes by, Richard Linklater’s BEFORE… trilogy.

New video essay for @lwlies.com, full link is here:

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Delighted to have my new video essay ’From Lethal Weapons to Nice Guys: How Shane Black Reinvented the Buddy Movie’ featured on the stellar new Blu-Ray release of THE NICE GUYS from @secondsightfilms.bsky.social

Another #Oscars, another year of blatant Category Fraud, this time in two of the most locked sets of nominees.

Which is why this video essay I made 10 whole years ago, analyzing the sorry, but highly effective ploy, is an evergreen.

Link to the full video below:
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David Lynch’s oneiric, shapeshifting art exhilarated, haunted and inspired me, Mulholland Dr. perhaps most of all. A few years back I made a video essay trying to unpack why. Sharing it below in tribute.

Thank you, David Lynch. In dreams, you walk with us.

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