Walter JonesWorking-Class Hero: ‘Clerks’ at (Almost) 302024 will mark the 30th anniversary of the release of Clerks, Kevin Smith’s black-and-white, made-on-a-shoestring debut about a pair of…·7 min read·May 11, 2023----
Walter JonesDarkness at Noon: Deception and Longing in Billy Wilder’s “Double Indemnity”With a shiny new 4K Criterion release just out, it’s time to take a closer look at Double Indemnity, the greatest film noir of all time…8 min read·Jun 27, 2022----
Walter JonesThe Multiverse of Sadness — How ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Finds a Path Through DespairDepending on how you define it, the concept of the “multiverse” has been around for at least as long human beings have been telling…7 min read·Jun 13, 2022--9--9
Walter Jones‘New York Ninja’ Is the Movie That Never Was — Until Now.Vinegar Syndrome Resurrects an Abandoned Classic of 80’s Action Schlock4 min read·Jan 16, 2022----
Walter JonesThe Matrix Reconsidered“Reloaded” and “Revolutions” Are Mediocre Movies — But They’re Great Art.11 min read·Nov 20, 2021----
Walter JonesDenis Villeneuve’s “Dune” Points the Way forward for Big Budget Sci-FiThe Age of Spectacle is Dead, Long Live the Age of Spectacle.7 min read·Nov 10, 2021--4--4
Walter JonesFascism in Mind: Bertolucci’s “The Conformist”There is a scene, near the end of Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1970 masterpiece The Conformist, that is as haunting and horrific as anything ever…11 min read·Aug 11, 2021----
Walter JonesBe Blind, RewindWere Video Rental Stores Really all that Great?12 min read·Jul 29, 2021----
Walter Jones“The Tomorrow War” is a Movie™All films are pastiche, but the best films reference ideas, and not just each other. The Tomorrow War, Chris Pratt’s new Amazon-exclusive…6 min read·Jul 13, 2021--1--1
Walter Jones“Nobody” is White Suburban Dad Revenge Porn, Minus all that Messy Moral AmbiguityNobody, the new film from Ilya Naishuller, is a serviceable action movie made noxious, thanks to the very flawed (and very American) logic…8 min read·Jun 23, 2021--3--3
