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Rob Kotecki

Why you watch: Crooklyn (1994)

It’s time for Spike Lee’s love letter to his mother and his neighborhood to be rediscovered for what it still is: an act of radical…

Jun 29, 2020

Why you watch: Crooklyn (1994)

Jun 29, 2020

Rob Kotecki

Why you watch: Talk to Me (2007)

Kasi Lemmons skipped the pieties while directing this biopic about a legendary DJ and his manager, to deliver a hilarious and…

Jun 8, 2020

Why you watch: Talk to Me (2007)

Jun 8, 2020

Rob Kotecki

Why You Watch: The Hospital (1971)

Even if this bleak, blistering comedy mines our broken healthcare system for plenty of laughs, it still shows how a director can fail a…

May 26, 2020

Why You Watch: The Hospital (1971)

May 26, 2020

Rob Kotecki

Why You Watch: Quiz Show (1994)

Robert Redford’s exposé on a game show scandal from the 1950s bombed at the box office, but it remains a brilliant look at the dangers of…

May 18, 2020

Why You Watch: Quiz Show (1994)

May 18, 2020

Rob Kotecki

Why you watch: Bug (2006)

William Friedkin adapted Tracy Letts’ hit play into a hot-house of paranoia and body horror that shows why conspiracy theories are so…

May 11, 2020

Why you watch: Bug (2006)

May 11, 2020

Rob Kotecki

Why you watch: Drunken Angel (1948)

Akira Kurosawa’s early classic reimagines the crime flick into a stylish meditation of what real virtue might be.

May 4, 2020

Why you watch: Drunken Angel (1948)

May 4, 2020

Rob Kotecki

Why you watch: Salem’s Lot (1979)

Vampires rarely terrify anyone anymore, but the original TV miniseries of Stephen King’s novel still disturbs, thanks to its canny…

Apr 27, 2020

Why you watch: Salem’s Lot (1979)

Apr 27, 2020

Rob Kotecki

Why you watch: Doc (1971)

Long out of print, Frank Perry’s salty revisionist Western just showed up on Amazon Prime, and here’s why it should never disappear again.

Apr 20, 2020

Why you watch: Doc (1971)

Apr 20, 2020

Rob Kotecki

Why you watch: The Ice Harvest (2005)

This great comic noir slipped through the cracks, but it’s ripe to be rediscovered, given how prescient it was about why we’d eventually…

Apr 13, 2020

Why you watch: The Ice Harvest (2005)

Apr 13, 2020

Rob Kotecki

Why you watch: Daniel Isn’t Real (2019)

This whip-smart indie about a truly terrible imaginary friend is a great example of how to ground a horror premise without muting its…

Apr 6, 2020

Why you watch: Daniel Isn’t Real (2019)

Apr 6, 2020

Rob Kotecki

Rob Kotecki

Writer. Director. And scavenger, scrounging for the ideas and stories that get buried by fads, scoundrels and prudes.

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