Lessons of Darkness

The Sickness

After two weeks of being seriously ill - and over a week of being without my primary computer - I'm back and ready to start posting a ton of new stuff to the blog. While six new site-specific reviews will hopefully hit the site at some point this week, for now I've got a wealth of Slant reviews to link to, including my write-ups of the first three episodes of season two of Showtime's Masters of Horror, as well as Anthony Minghella's latest Breaking and Entering.

TV:
Masters of Horror (Season 2) (Slant magazine)
(For episodes "The Damned Thing," "Family" and "The V Word")

Current Films:
The Return (Slant magazine)
The Cave of the Yellow Dog (Slant magazine)
Shottas (Slant magazine)

Future Films:
Breaking and Entering (Slant magazine)
Screamers (Slant magazine)

Almodóvar’s Outsider Cinema

To coincide with the release of Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver, I've contributed a critical look at the Spanish director's idiosyncratic oeuvre - and, specifically, the means by which he subverts stereotypes and celebrates those marginalized by mainstream society - for New York Foundation for the Arts' online publication NYFA Current. The link can be found here:

Happy Returns (NYFA Current)