‘The White Lotus’ review: Incisive and heartfelt as ever, Mike White astonishes all over again with his latest HBO outing
Filmed in a quarantine bubble at a Hawaiian resort last year The White Lotus — which is Mike White’s first new show since the brilliance of Enlightened disappeared far... Read More
Jason Adams
Jason knew the movies were his bag the second he saw that lawyer sitting on a toilet getting eaten by a Tyrannosaur, and he's never looked back once since. Simultaneously a movie snob who watches Fassbinder for fun while also being a trash apologist prone to reenacting the death scenes in the Friday the 13th series through vivid pantomime, he's got room for everything projected onto a big screen in his big roomy heart. He's been covering the daily beat on his site My New Plaid Pants since 2005 and is a regular contributor to The Film Experience. He's a member of GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, and has been accredited to cover basically every New York City based film festival for the past ten years including NYFF and Tribeca. You can follow him on Twitter at @JAMNPP
‘The Djinn’ review: Little Boy Boos
Although there are about fifty Dracula movies in development right now it does seem to me as if the horror movie makers have done some rummaging about... Read More
SXSW Review: ‘Potato Dreams of America’ is a true queer coming of age fable with a unique and bent vision
Jean-Claude Van Damme and a Jonathan Bennett Jesus make Wes Hurley’s autobiographical tale an inventive kaleidoscope of Derek Jarman, John Waters and Gregg Araki They... Read More
Film Review: Keith Thomas’ debut ‘The Vigil’ is a visceral, shomer scare
You can’t run away from your past. Your past is always there, over your shoulder, like the monster in a scary movie — spin your... Read More
Film Review: Matthias Schoenaerts and Joel Kinnaman in ‘Brothers By Blood’ isn’t nearly as horny as it sounds
A note to everybody in the business of casting and making movies — hire Matthias Schoenaerts. His specific mixture of sweet, sad, and bulkily intimidating... Read More
Jake Gyllenhaal turns 40: Here’s his best looks, performances, screen partners, nude scenes (!!!) and more
I don’t know if you guys know this — perhaps you don’t have this written in your calendars four times like I do, in which... Read More
Film Review: The weird and wonderful ‘The Twentieth Century’
Being teleported into another reality, warped or nay, is or should be high on everybody’s wish-lists in the year that’s been twenty-twenty, and have I... Read More
Film Review: ‘The Exorcist’ doc ‘Leap of Faith’ is a Friedkin echo chamber but still a devil of a good time
The last time I saw The Exorcist in the theater (for its re-release in 2010) I got so anxious that I made myself physically sick, and I... Read More
NYFF Review: In ‘French Exit,’ Michelle Pfeiffer gives a performance for the ages
I don’t know about you but not being able to see my mother in person in over a year thanks to the pandemic has made... Read More
Film Review: Tell me, tell me, how to be, how to be a ‘Kajillionaire’
Certain movies make you think a new way. Something like Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth aggressively owns that idea outright — it turns language itself against its viewers, reorganizing... Read More
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