Criticism
Film/television/theatre criticism, published on multiple websites including the now-defunct A/V website Moon Beach Island. Most pieces are collected in Everyone Else is Wrong (And You Know It).
Film
Reviews: The Amazing Spider-man, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Burlesque, Caligula: The Ultimate Cut (DVD), The Campaign, Conclave, The Counselor, The Croods, The Dark Knight Rises (plus DVD), Ender's Game, Evil Dead (remake), Flight, The Great Gatsby, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Jack Reacher (DVD), Jack the Giant Slayer, Juror #2, Killing Me Softly, It Ends with Us, Les Misérables, Maestro, Mission: Impossible-- Ghost Protocol, Oz the Great and Powerful, Pain and Gain, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace (3-D release), This is 40, and Zero Dark Thirty.
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Articles: “Alternate Halloween Film Fare," “An Afternoon at the Movies: Portrait of the Artist as Emerging Hermit” "Award Season is Here," "Batmans on the Big Screen," "Beneath the 'Berg: The Director Who Wouldn't Grow Up," "The Brady Bunch Movie: 30th Anniversary," "Can Millions of People Be Wrong?,” "David Lynch. Artist. 1946-2025," “‘Important’ Cinema," "The Curse of the Pink Panther Films," "The Life Aquatic: 20 Years On," "Lost Classics: Disney's The Happiest Millionaire," "Lost Classics: Don Juan DeMarco," "Lost Classics: Norman Mailer's Maidstone," "Lost Classics: Hitchcock's Marnie," "Lost Classics: The Producers (2005)," "Non-Guilty Pleasures: Bring it On," "Non-Guilty Pleasures: Ernest P. Worrell," "Non-Guilty Pleasures: Police Academy," "The Old gods are Dead: Farewell to the Movies," "The 100 Best Films of 2000-2009," "The 100 Best Films of 2010-2019," "On Joy, Luck, and the Color Purple," "Oscars: Who Should've Won Anyway?/Who Will Win?," "1987: The World's Worst Year for Movies," "A Quick Trek through Harry Potter," "Reckoning with Jim Carrey (Finally)," "Robert Altman (1925-2006)," "The Room: A 20th Anniversary Celebration," "Shakespeare and the Cinema" (formerly "A Sense of Shakespeare in Film," "Six Mini-Reviews of Films Currently Playing," "Sondheim on Film," "Too Many Award Shows, Too Many Good Movies," “Top 5 Audio Commentaries," “The Top Ten Best of 2012 and Top 13 Most Anticipated Movies of 2013," "Top 10 Best Remakes," "Top 10 Best Sequels," "Top 10 Christmas Movies," "The Top 10 Worst Films of 2012/The Top Least Anticipated Films of 2013," "'Top' 10 Worst Remakes," "'Top' 10 Worst Sequels,” "Universal Monster Mash," "Val Kilmer Remembered"
T/V
Reviews: The Bible, Part 1, Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey, Family Guy Vol. 9 (DVD), Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial, Monster: The Ed Gein Story, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, The Outreau Case: A French Nightmare, 10 Things I Hate About You (series), and This is the Zodiac Speaking
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Articles: "The Best of the Best of Curb," "Danger Theatre," “Distractions of the Idiot Box," "Emmy Recap 2012," "Esquire's HBO List: All That's Wrong," "Hated Math, Loved Mathnet," "I Watched All of South Park and I Love Eric Cartman," "My Favorite Alice in Wonderland," "Six Feet Under: Television Three Years Later," "Some Favorite Saturday Night Live Sketches," "The Snapping Turtle: Ginny, Georgia, Storytelling, and Representation," "Top 10 South Park Episodes," "2013 Emmy Nominations," "The Greatest Youtube Video Ever (No, Really)," "Underrated Christmas Specials"
Theatre
Reviews: Chess in Concert (DVD), Jake's Women (Cahaba Theatre Group), Prelude to a Kiss (Theatre Downtown), Sunday in the Park with George (Theatre Downtown)
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Articles: "Christopher Durang (1949-2024)," “David Mamet and the State of American Theatre with a Brief History of our Major Playwrights,” "A Dramatic Canon," "Einstein on the Beach: 20th Century Masterpiece," "Goodbye, Bob (This is for You)," “Great Films Based on Plays," "Great Plays of the World Theatre," "How I Learned to Stop Being Pretentious and Love Cats," "John Proctor is the Villain is Not the Villain; Neither is John Proctor," "King Charles III Again," "Marilyn Monroe: The Death of Arthur Miller," "Meeting Craig Lucas," "On Andrew Lloyd Webber's Britishness," "On Political Theatre," "Profile: David Henry Hwang," "Remembering Spalding Gray," "Stephen Sondheim: A Remembrance" (formerly "Profile: Stephen Sondheim"), "The Theatre and the Blues," "Who is Bobby?: An Inquiry into Sondheim's Company," "Unsung American Drama”
“[His plays] feature...stories of people inadequately prepared for the world. Each offers its protagonists the opportunity to take a leadership role in their lives. Some succeed, others fail, some fail to try. All portray humanity at its most beautiful: fragile, finite, and shared."
- Penn Genthner
Director of Development
Classical Theatre of Harlem