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My Author Pages

These are the sites where I am/was a regular contributor:

• Film Inquiry Magazine

• The Film Stage

• The Chicago Reader

• Vague Visages

• Screen Slate

• Paste Magazine

• Popula Magazine

• The Spool

• Frame.Land

Features

These are Features I have written on film, politics, and culture (pieces that are also published in PRINT are noted as such)

• “Mark Jenkins’ Rose of Nevada Is an Intoxicating Parable of Memory and Time” - (Brooklyn Rail - 5/1/2026) PRINT

• “It’s Never Too Early For a Fright: The Best Early-Year Release Horror Films of the 21st Century - (Fangoria - 2/28/2026)

• “Power & Conquest: Lav Diaz’s Magellan” - (The Mekong Review - 2/1/2026) PRINT

• “Was Robert Crumb Right?” - (Little White Lies - 5/5/2025)

• “Joan Micklin Silver’s Between the Lines is a Prescient Homage to Print Media” - (Jacobin - 4/28/2025)

• “10 Great Indian Action Films” - (British Film Institute - 11/14/2024)

• “Harold & Kumar Was More Than Just a ‘Stoner Movie’” - (JoySauce - 8/1/2024)

• “Ghosts in the Celluloid: Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut 20 Years Later” - (Fangoria - 7/17/2024)

• "The 30 Year Gap: India’s Absence from the Cannes Film Festival” - (British Film Institute - 4/23/2024)

• “Notebook Primer: Bombay Noir” - (MUBI Notebook - 8/13/2024)

• “The Warm but Dishonest Comfort of Joe Johnston’s October Sky” - (Paste Magazine - 2/19/2024)

• “The Rise of Primer and the Fall of Shane Carruth” - (Paste Magazine - 1/16/2024)

• “Interview with Director Robbie Banfitch on The Outwaters” - (Fangoria - 2/22/2023)

• “The Viral Sensation Skinamarink Is This Generation’s Blair With Project” - (Polygon - 1/12/2023)

• “The Legacy of Peter Traynor’s Pulpy Masterpiece Death Game Lives On!” - (Fangoria - 11/18/2022)

• “You Only Get One Shot: Eminem’s Star-turn in 8 Mile” - (Paste Magazine - 11/9/2022)

• “The 1964 Italian Film That Speaks to the Dread of Climate Change” - (Jacobin - 11/6/2022)

• “A Lookback at Aleksandr Pstushko’s Tremendous Soviet Masterpiece: Ilya Muromets” - (Polygon - 8/23/2022)

• “Primer: A Guide to Cinema on The Partition and Independence of India” - (MUBI Notebook - 8/19/2022)

• “Mani Ratnam’s Dil Se…: A Daring Political Romance Became a Bollywood Classic” - (British Film Institute - 8/16/2023)

• "20-Year Anniversary of Devdas: The Perfect Bollywood Introduction” - (Little White Lies - 8/4/2022)

• “There are No Coincidences in M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs” - (Paste Magazine - 8/2/2022)

• “Lost Highway at 25: Chapter One of David Lynch’s L.A. Saga” - (Film Daze - 3/25/2022)

• “Jackass Forever Defies Age, Physics, and the Limits of Men’s Genitals” - (Polygon - 2/4/2022)

• “The Rebirth of India’s Forgotten Cinema in the Era of Streaming” - (MUBI Notebook - 8/20/2021)

• “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is an Underrated Sequel” - (Polygon - 8/18/2021)

• “Colorful & Sinister: The Neo-Noir Stylings of Michael Mann’s Theif and Manhunter” - (Film Daze - 7/29/2021)

• “Showcasing the Best of Working-Class Cinema: The D.C. Labor Film Festival” - (Jacobin - 7/8/2021)

• “Interview with Thomas Negovan on a new Restoration of cult classic Caligula” - (Fangoria - 6/28/2021)

• “Still Not of this World: E. Elias Merhige’s Begotten, Thirty Years Later” - (Fangoria - 6/4/2021)

• “Moments The Define a Century: Political Crossroads in Margarethe von Trotta’s Rosa Luxemburg” - (Film Daze - 2/28/2021)

• “The Quiet Filmmaker: Srikant Srinivasan’s ‘Modernism by Other Means: The Cinema of Amit Dutta” - (L.A. Review of Books - 1/29/2021)

• “Alejandro Jodorowsky: A Journey From Violence to Love” - (MUBI Notebook - 12/29/2020)

• “The Ghosts That Lie in Our Art: On Ruiz & Sarmiento’s Tango of the Widower and it’s Distorting Mirror” - (KinoScope - 10/5/2020)

• “Battles Against a Crooked System: Nishikant Kamat’s Dombivali Fast” - (FirstPost - 6/25/2020)

• “Gus Van Sant’s Elephant Forced Us to See the Normal Inside the Horrific” - (The Spool - 6/18/2020)

• “Is Rififi the Greatest Heist Movie Ever Made?” - (Little White Lies - 5/21/2020)

• Requiem for the SXSW Midnighters Section - (Fangoria - 5/30/2020)

• A New Documentary TFW No GF Examines Male Isolation and the Wojack Meme - (The Daily Beast - 4/4/2020)

• “The Early Collaborations of Ingmar Bergman & Max von Sydow” - (The Spool - 3/17/2020)

• “There is no John Galt: On Climate Change, Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer, & Sion Sono’s Himizu - (Metrograph NYC - 2/28/2020)

• “Who is Expendable?: On Ladj Ly’s Les Miserables” - (Popula - 1/27/2020)

• “You Can’t Take the Film Out of Film Criticism” - (Vague Visages - 1/23/2020)

• “Since His Debut, Jim Jarmusch Has Been on Permanent Vacation” - (The Spool - 1/12/2020)

• “What is it to Like a Film?” - (Popula - 12/5/2019)

• “Genre at Terminal Velocity: The Cinema of Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani - (Vague Visages - 10/23/2019)

• “A Meeting of Cinema Giants Past & Present: Jonas Mekas & Martin Scorsese” - (MUBI Notebook - 9/30/2019)

• “A Time Machine of Indian Cinema: Sarkari Shorts” - (Popula - 8/27/2019)

• “The Grand Charade of Life, Love, & Death: Peter Strickland’s The Duke of Burgundy” - (Film & Fishnets - 7/16/2019)

• “A Beginner’s Guide to Carlos Reygadas” - (Film Inquiry - 7/5/2019)

• “A Filmmaker Who Fought Bollywood to Realize His Vision” - (Hyperallergic - 7/4/2019)

• “Thackeray: A Hindu Nationalist Hagiography” - (Popula - 7/2/2019)

• “The Mozart of Madras: Why A.R. Rahman’s Music Took So Long to Reach the West” - (Vague Visages - 4/5/2019)

• “Spielberg vs. Netflix is A Battle With No Winners” - (Film Inquiry - 3/19/2019)

• “Fascism and the Erasure of Memory in Radu Jude’s I Do Not Care if We Go Down in History as Barbarians” - (Frame.Land - 2/10/2019)

• “Masahiro Shinoda’s Ghosts of Japan Trilogy” - (Frame.Land - 1/3/2019)

• “Slumdog Millionaire is not the tribute to Indian Cinema I Thought it Was 10 Years Ago” - (Bustle - 11/13/2018)

• “Disappearing into the Dark: Lav Diaz’s The Woman Who Left (2016) - (Peephole Journal - 10/1/2018)

Festival Coverage

• 2026 Prismatic Ground - (The Film Stage - 4/28/2026)

• 2025 Japan Cuts - (The Film Stage - 7/8/2025)

• 2024 Japan Cuts - (The Film Stage - 7/8/2024)

• 2024 Prismatic Ground - (Cinema Year Zero - 6/13/2024)

• 2022 Berlin Film Festival Critics Week - #2 - (Vague Visages - 2/21/2022)

• 2022 Berlin Film Festival Critics Week - #1 - (Vague Visages - 2/21/2022)

• 2022 Sundance Film Festival - (The Spool - 1/22/2022)

• 2021 TIFF - Roundup Reviews - (Film Inquiry - 9/28/2021)

• 2021 TIFF - Reviews - (The Spool - 9/22/2021)

• 2021 TIFF - Reviews - (The Film Stage - 9/18/2021)

• 2021 SXSW - Midnighters Filmmakers’ Reflections on a Year that Changed Cinema - (Fangoria - 4/7/2021)

• 2021 SXSW - Documentary Spotlight #3 - (The Spool - 3/19/2021)

• 2021 SXSW - Documentary Spotlight #2 - (The Spool - 3/18/2021)

• 2021 SXSW - Documentary Spotlight #1 - (The Spool - 3/17/2021)

• 2021 Berlin Film Festival Critics Week - (Film Inquiry - 3/9/2021)

• 2021 Sundance Film Festival Premier, Arjitpal Singh’s Fire in the Mountains - (The Spool - 2/5/2021)

• 2020 San Diego Asian Film Festival - (Film Inquiry - 11/4/2020)

• 2020 New York Film Festival - Special Feature, Ephrain Asili’s The Inheritance - (Film Inquiry 10/7/2020)

• 2020 New York Film Festival - Roundup #2 - (Film Inquiry - 10/9/2020)

• 2020 New York Film Festival - Roundup #1 - (Film Inquiry - 9/30/2020)

• 2020 SXSW - A Requiem for the Midnighters - (Fangoria - 3/30/2020)

• 2019 Fantasia Film Festival - A Tasting Menu - (Film Inquiry - 8/15/2019)

• 2019 Cannes Quinzaine/Director’s Fortnight - Sergio Caballero’s Je te tiens - (Vague Visages - 6/16/2019)

• 2019 13th Annual New African Film Festival - (Frame.Land - 3/16/2019)

TV Coverage

• Netflix’s Last Chance U: Basketball, Season 1 - (5/4/2021)

• Netflix’s Last Chance U: Laney - (8/26/2020)

• Netflix’s Last Chance U: Indy Part 2 - (8/29/2019)

• Game of Thrones, Season 8, Episode 3 - (Film Inquiry - 4/29/2019)

• Game of Thrones, Season 8, Episode 1 - (Film Inquiry - 4/15/2019)

Awards Coverage

• 2010s All-Decade Oscars Game

• 2020 Golden Globe Awards

• 2019 Academy Awards

Staff Collaborations

• “Screen Slate Best of 2020 Critics Round-up” - (Screen Slate - 12/30/2020)

• “Writers Poll: Fantasy Double Features 2019” - (MUBI Notebook - 12/30/2019)

• “Directors of the Decade 2010-2019 - (Frame.Land - 12/10/2019)

• “Actors of the Decade 2010-2019 - (Frame.Land - 12/10/2019)

• “Cinematographers of the Decade 2010-2019 - (Frame.Land - 12/10/2019)

• “Staff Inquiry: Our Favorite Soundtracks” - (Film Inquiry - 5/23/2019)

• “Staff Inquiry: Our Favorite Film Betrayals” - (Film Inquiry - 3/22/2019)