Famous Last Words: A Fond Farewell To The Tabloid Train Wreck

(Throwback Thursday: My final column for INsite Boston, originally published in April 2007. I still feel that I wrote this shortly after Hollywood reached a turning point; when the advent of the internet paved the way for celebrity worship to give way to schadenfreude. Sensing that, I realized I had said all that there was […]

M. Night Shyamalan’s Plot Twists, Ranked From Mind-Blowing To Face-Palming

This is a round-up all the plot twists in M. Night Shyamalan’s movies. Or is it???

‘Separation’ Anxiety: A Tense Iranian Drama Goes For The Gold

(Films discussed in this post: Trespass, Boy Wonder, A Separation, Passion Play, Tuesday After Christmas, The Trip, The Double, The Beaver.)This is my 100th post in this blog, and coincidentally, this post also marks 100 reviews of 2011 films. As you’ll see, I’ve saved some of the most obscure for last. Every year there are […]