Man-su has been laid off. Actually, it’s worse: Man-su’s middle-management position has been dissolved—made redundant by advancements in technology, corporate consolidation, and social devaluing of the craft it takes to make everyday objects. What’s a man to do in a … Continue reading NO OTHER CHOICE
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Marty Supreme and Song Sung Blue, both out in theaters. Continue reading After Image: Dec. 26, 2025
The set-up is poetry. On one side of the table stands Koto Endo (Koto Kawaguchi), Japan’s best table tennis player, a man who lost his hearing in the bombing of Tokyo and exists in a silence that brings only stillness. … Continue reading MARTY SUPREME
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Avatar: Fire and Ash, out now in theaters, The Mastermind, streaming on MUBI, and Wake Up Dead Man, streaming on Netflix and a couple theaters around town. Continue reading After Image: Dec. 19, 2025
The visuals are stunning—that you can probably guess. Not all are perfect: too many, intentionally, have the herky-jerky quality of a first-person shooter video game. But others have a tactility that renders the descriptor “photo-realistic” inadequate. Most movies traffic in … Continue reading AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Hamnet and Merrily We Roll Along, both in theaters everywhere, and offer Criterion’s latest Eclipse Set: Abbas Kiarostami – Early Shorts and Features for those of you shopping for the cinephile in your life this holiday season. Continue reading After Image: Dec. 5, 2025
Merrily We Roll Along is neither a stage show nor is it cinema, but damn it’s good. Filmed over three performances in June 2024, not long after the Stephen Sondheim and George Furth penned musical won four Tonys in the … Continue reading MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Zootopia 2, out in wide release this weekend, Rebuilding, now out in limited release, and Left-Handed Girl, streaming on Netflix. Continue reading After Image: Nov. 28, 2025
Zootopia 2 is not a movie for the children in the audience; it’s for the adults. I’m sure little ones will enjoy it—there’s plenty of bright colors, silly moments, and chaotic chases to grab a kid’s attention—but in a movie … Continue reading ZOOTOPIA 2
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