Saturday, November 16, 2019

Sara Lucassen


New York


422-424 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan, Photo by Berenice Abbott, 1939

Nastya Kusakina


First Lines: John Flanagan - The Ruins of Gorlan


"Try to eat something, Will. Tomorrow's a big day, after all."

Hailey Clauson


ph: Zoey Grossman

A day in the life, Oct 13


A day in the life, Oct 13, a late bloom

Liu Chunjie


New Stuff: David Bowie



Kate Bowman


ph: Olivier Zahm

Kawaki (2014)



As former detective Akikazu searches for his missing daughter, Kanako, he soon learns she has a mysterious secret life.

Made with all the director's hallmark wild imagination and panache, this movie is not simply a downward spiral, but rather, right from the start, an exhausting visitation of a hellish world with no redeeming moments allowing the audience to take breath.

Hana Soukupova


ph: Morelli Brothers

New Stuff: Sudan Archives



Nana Komatsu


In the Tall Grass (2019)


After hearing a young boy's cry for help, a sister and brother venture into a vast field of tall grass in Kansas but soon discover there may be no way out...and that something evil lurks within.

OK supernatural horror doesn't do much to enhance its (implausible) premise, but does deliver some mild shocks along the way.

Monica Bellucci


Friday, November 15, 2019

New Stuff: Matana Roberts



Who's That Girl?


Photographer: Miles Aldridge

Candice Swanepoel


A day in the life, Oct 12


A day in the life, Oct 12, Karlovy Vary

Svetlana Lazareva


New York


Tao Okamoto


First Lines: John Ajvide Lindqvist - Let the Right One In


It makes you think of coconut-frosted cookies, maybe drugs.

Thursday, November 14, 2019

Sofie Hemmet


ph: Scott Trindle

A day in the life, Oct 11


A day in the life, Oct 11, Regensburg by night

Pooja Mor


New Stuff: Steve Hillage



Julia van Os


ph: Hugh Lippe

High Life (2018)




A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.

Leftfield and dark sci-fi drama explores interpersonal relationships and human nature under extreme conditions; it helps to ignore the scientific components of the tale.

Dylan Penn


New Stuff: John Brunner


Erika Linder


ph: Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello

Doomed to Die (1940)


Mr. Wong and a girl reporter investigate a shipping magnate's murder.

Second-rate, run-of-the-mill crime mystery in the Mr. Wong series with implausible, complicated plot; one of the minor entries in the series.

Maltin*1/2

Elsa Hosk


ph: Emre Unal

New Stuff: The New Yorker


(art: Bruce McCall)

Who's That Girl?


Art: Ricardo Sanz