Queued Up: All the Women-Directed Films You Can Catch on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and Criterion
It all started one night when I realized Penelope Spheeris’s weird, ridiculously underrated HOLLYWOOD VICE was available on Amazon Prime. (Still is, actually—more on that another time.) That got me digging through the archives to see what other female filmmakers I could dig up films from, rather than streaming more episodes of trashy, trashy TV shows (looking at you, TRUE BLOOD) I’ve already watched many, many times on all the main streaming services. What follows is an incom
Year in Review: The Very Best Films of 2017
1. SUPER DARK TIMES: When I saw SUPER DARK TIMES at Fantastic Fest in a midnight slot, I had no idea what to expect—and was truly blown away. Kevin Phillips’s directorial debut is insanely engrossing from the jump, setting the tone with a nightmarish opening sequence I won’t soon be forgetting. This is the side of high school we don’t normally see onscreen—awkward, painful, isolating, and occasionally joyful. And that’s all before the film’s climatic event comes out of nowher
