Stuff I Wrote This Week

• Review of The Purge, which I surprisingly liked
• Review of Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing, which I somewhat surprisingly didn’t like
• Review of You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet, which I unsurprisingly liked
• Review of Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie, which I semi-surprisingly liked
• Review of Hey Bartender, for which I had no expectations (and was kinda into)
• Review of Violet & Daisy, which is fine
• A list of major film actors who went TV
• A piece on Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia (pictured above), playing at BAMcinematek

Weekly Round-up of Material I Wrote on a Professional-Type Basis

• A list about films in which parents act alongside their kids. This isn’t just the obvious ones.
• A not entirely displeased review of M. Night Shyamalan and the Smiths’ After Earth
• An amused review of the entirely nonsensical Now You See Me
• A review of The Kings of Summer
• A review of James Marsh’s Shadow Dancer
• An interview with The Kings of Summer’s Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally
• An interview with Peter Sarsgaard, who’s now on The Killing

Weekly Round-up of Material I Wrote on a Professional-Type Basis

• I was predictably gung-ho for Before Midnight
• I was also predictably gung-ho for Steven Soderbergh’s alleged swan song Behind the Candelabra
• Apparently in the minority in not utterly hating The Hangover Part III
• Fast & Furious 6 was more or less fun
• Conflicted on Alex Gibney’s We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
• A listicle on sequels — like, improbably, the third Hangover — that break from formula

Also catch Sean Burns on Epic, Gary M. Kramer on Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s and Craig D. Lindsey on The English Teacher.

Also, forgot to do this last week. So here it is:

• Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig’s Frances Ha
• The seizure film Augustine
• Katie Aselton and Mark Duplass’ indie horror-thriller Black Rock
• Kim Ki-duk’s ugh Pieta
• Aaron Eckhart and Liana Liberto are quite good in Erased

And read Sean Burns not like Star Trek Into Darkness.

Weekly Round-up of Material I Wrote on a Professional-Type Basis

Reviews

• Review of The Great Gatsby, which is not a disaster
• Review of Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers, which is enjoyably nasty
• Review of the Eli Roth’s Aftershock
• Review of Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell
• Review of Venus and Serena
• Review of Hava Nagila: The Movie

Interviews/Miscellany:

• Wrote a piece about BAM’s “Booed at Cannes” series
• Some Leo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan quotes from a presser for The Great Gatsby
• Talked to Joel Edgerton while he was in his briefs
• Talked to Eli Roth

Also, check out Vadim Rizov on Peeples.

Weekly Round-up of Stuff I Wrote on a Professional-type Basis

• Did this kind of epic round-up of the summer’s movie offerings, with some room found for Computer Chess and ilk
• Review of Iron Man 3
• Review of Olivier Assayas’ awesome Something in the Air
• Review of Carlos Reygadas’ Post Tenebras Lux
• Review of Xan Cassavetes’ Kiss of the Damned
• Review of the Jeff Buckley thing Greetings From Tim Buckley
• Review of the Mumia doc
• Interview with Xan Cassavetes for Kiss of the Damned
• Interview with former CIA analyst Nada Bakos, who fucking helped find Zarqawi, for the HBO doc Manhunt

Weekly Round-Up of All the Many Things I Wrote This Week Professionally

• Review of Jeff Nichols’ Mud, starring Matthew McConaughey as Mud
• Review of Terence Nance’s An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
• Review of Ramin Bahrani’s At Any Price
• Review of Mira Nair’s film of The Reluctant Fundamentalist
• Review of the film of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
• Review of Arthur Newman, which stars Colin Firth and Emily Blunt and still stinks
• Review of the documentary Koch

Interviews

• Holy shit, I talked to Salman Rushdie
• Colin Firth and Emily Blunt
• John Slattery and Amy Morton

And check out my old Philadelphia Weekly comrade Sean Burns tearing apart Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain and Gary M. Kramer on No Place on Earth.

Weekly Round-Up of Professional-Style Writing I Wrote on a Professional-Like Basis

• Interview with Rob Zombie, and a review of his new film The Lords of Salem
• A piece on the new restoration of Portrait of Jason in which I talk to Milestone Films’ Amy Heller and Dennis Doros
• A review of Oblivion, which isn’t terrible
• A review of François Ozon’s In the House
• A review of Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
• A review of the new faux-silent Blancanieves

Weekly Round-Up of Shit I Wrote on a Professional Basis

• A rave of Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder sorry haters
• Review of the Jackie Robinson picture 42
• Review of Ken Loach’s The Angels’ Share
• Review of the indie apocalyptic comedy It’s a Disaster
• A “Repertory Round-Up” for NYC this weekend, including Medieval films at Anthology, 1957 ‘scope eyesores at Film Forum and rare Max Ophüls and Julien Duvivier films at MoMA
• A piece on Philadelphia’s XPN Music Film Festival, which touts movies about the Flaming Lips, back-up singers, the Beatles’ secretary and Aimee Mann acting

Also be sure to check out Vadim Rizov on Disconnect.

Weekly Round-up of Writings I Wrote on a Professional Writing Basis

On the extreme off-chance that you’re wondering why I’m not playing much with this Tumblr anymore, it’s because I have a real person’s full-time job on top of a real student’s full-time workload. The fruits of the former, from the last week, can be found below:

• A review of Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color
• An interview with Robert Redford about The Company You Keep
• A review of The Company You Keep
• An interview with director Antonio Campos and actor/writer Brady Corbet about Simon Killer
• A review of Simon Killer
• A review of the Evil Dead remake 
• An interview with Eva Mendes, for The Place Beyond the Pines

Also check Vadim Rizov on Jurassic Park 3-D.