The Action is the Juice
January 14, 2020
Uncut Gems and Dark Waters crystallize how being alive today feels.
John Semley
John Semley is a writer and researcher based in Philadelphia.
The Leftovers
December 10, 2019
In The Irishman, mob opulence is eclipsed by ugliness.
You’re the Man for Us
November 19, 2019
The un-cynical irony of Mister America and On Cinema
Cyberpunk is Dead
Held annually in a downtown L.A. convention center so massive and glassy that it served as a futurist backdrop for the 1993 sci-fi action film Demolition Man and as an intergalactic “Federal Transport Hub” in Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 space-fascism satire Starship Troopers, ...
So Metaphorical
October 24, 2019
Parasite, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes (in a reportedly unanimous decision) and was (less unanimously) a finalist for the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, begins in a dead-end.
The film opens in a dingy sub-basement at the ass-end of a ...
Corrupted Headspace
October 7, 2019
Joker and the vacuity of influence
Let Us Compare Mythologies
August 19, 2019
The pathos of Tarantino’s historical interventions.
The Fleshly Frontier
August 2, 2019
High Life embraces the beauty, terror, and shit of material existence.