Evan WeissFilm Review: Too-Early Top 10 of ‘20Oscar season is nearly upon us, and I can conceive of no better way to prepare for the Academy’s predictably disappointing nominations…Nov 4, 2020Nov 4, 2020
Evan WeissNotes on “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” (and a few other recent films)The Jay Roach-directed Bombshell (2020), a campy and occasionally melodramatic retelling of the events leading to Roger Ailes’s ousting…Aug 26, 2020Aug 26, 2020
Evan WeissNotes on “The Irishman” (2019, Film)The chief complaint about Scorsese’s sweeping new mob epic seems to be that it’s too long. Officially registering at 210 minutes, The…May 1, 2020May 1, 2020
Evan WeissA Blurb About “Ford v Ferarri” (2019, Film)Admittedly I was turned off by the title of Robert Mangold’s film about the 1960’s auto racing feud between Ford Motor Company and the…Apr 20, 2020Apr 20, 2020
Evan WeissNotes on John Updike’s Rabbit TetralogyRabbit at Rest, the final novel in the Rabbit Tetralogy, arguably the defining work of John Updike’s career, sat on my bookshelf for…Mar 24, 2020Mar 24, 2020
Evan WeissPETA is right; Marines Should Stop Drinking Snake BloodLast week US Marines on social media conducted a keyboard counteroffensive against the newest threat to national security: People for the…Mar 13, 2020Mar 13, 2020
Evan WeissReview of Elisabetta Girelli’s “Montgomery Clift, Queer Star” (2013, Biography)To the extent that he’s remembered today, Montgomery Clift’s film career is usually viewed as two distinct and conflicting periods: the…Mar 10, 2020Mar 10, 2020
Evan WeissA Blurb About “1917” (Film, 2019)This isn’t your Grandfather’s war epic. The dialogue is minimal and there’s none of that superfluous foxhole philosophizing. Though the…Mar 4, 2020Mar 4, 2020
Evan WeissNotes on “Parasite” (Film, 2019)By turns hilarious, suspenseful, and tragic, Parasite is an engrossing and nuanced rendering of class envy in modern society. It’s not…Mar 4, 2020Mar 4, 2020
Evan WeissReview of Eminem’s “Music to Be Murdered By” (Music/Rap, 2020)Mark Twain famously said that if you give a man a reputation as an early riser, he can sleep ’til noon. If the novelist were alive today…Feb 17, 2020Feb 17, 2020