Review: “The Shrouds”

I thought I was done writing. Then I saw David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds. Grief fucks people up. In all the expected ways, sure: the depressive episodes prompted by the gaping void the loss of someone— or something— beloved create a ripple effect that spreads about their circle of friends and family like a disease, the […]

Review: “Sinners”

Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1932. The signs that this is the Jim Crow-era South perpetually exist on the periphery of the lives of the town’s Black residents: in the fields flecked with white cotton as far as the eye can see, where Black sharecroppers labor day in and day out, and in Hogwood (David Maldonado), the white […]

Review: “I Know Catherine, the Log Lady”

You don’t have Twin Peaks without David Lynch. You don’t have Twin Peaks without Mark Frost. You don’t have Twin Peaks without Kyle MacLachlan’s Dale Cooper. And you certainly don’t have Twin Peaks without the Log Lady. The enigmatic resident of the small Pacific Northwest town of the iconic series’ title, played by Catherine Coulson, […]

Review: “Eephus”

I am not a baseball fan. This has plagued me for most of my life. Having lived in St. Louis— widely regarded as one of the nation’s most fanatical sports towns— for over half of my life now, I’m used to shrugging off the question I receive most from people when I’m out of town […]