The Normal Newsletter
Matt ErspamerMy name is Matt Erspamer, and I'm normal. I'm a writer, stinker, and movie lover who lives in Seattle.
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'The Odyssey' review: Land of godless monsters
Christopher Nolan worships at the altar of realism.
He is a maximalist director, probably the biggest one currently working who is not making Avatar films, but he does not often indulge in fantasy or the unexplainable. In fact, the r...
To Cry For
"You’re not anybody in America unless you’re on TV.”
So says Nicole Kidman’s ambitious, psychotic news correspondent Suzanne Stone in Gus Van Sant’s 1995 thriller To Die For.1 The line is spoken directly into the camera, as if she’s...
She bets on losing dogs
João Pedro Rodrigues’ first feature, 2000’s O Fantasma, is one of my favorite cinematic debuts. He immediately announced himself as a bold queer iconoclast, charting the depraved interiority of a gay trash collector as he comes undone, and...
'Disclosure Day' review: The truth is out there
The billing on movie posters is often reserved for a film’s stars, and being top billed is part of an actor’s negotiation process. When someone becomes famous enough, like Tom Cruise, their name is the only name; it appears in big letters r...
Reviews: Backrooms and Obsession
Backrooms
Credit where credit is due: In Backrooms, director Kane Parsons creates an expansive and intriguing hidden world.
Like Jordan Peele’s Us, this film posits a netherworld beneath the America We Know. Parsons' is an endless s...
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