Seeing A House of Dynamite two weeks after Paul Greengrass’s The Lost Bus really puts some unexpected shine on Greengrass’s ability to pass boilerplate Hollywood screenwriting for verité docudrama. In any universe, Kathryn Bigelow isRead Full Review
Month: October 2025
The Lost Bus
Few filmmakers feel more coded to the early 2000’s than Paul Greengrass. His handheld verité style lent itself well to the emergence of digital cinematography that “democratized” the filmmaking process and gave many directors aRead Full Review
One Battle After Another
The post-modernist novels of Thomas Pynchon seem to defy adaptation. His 1990 novel Vineland feels especially resistant to a non-literary interpretation, dominated as it is by dense, eccentric prose and enigmatic characters. One Battle AfterRead Full Review


