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Kate Siegel's husband, and filmmaker. Founder of Red Room Pictures.

Los Angeles, CA
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Favorite films

  • All That Jazz
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • Ikiru

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  • Fréwaka

  • They Live

  • Final Destination Bloodlines

  • Black Bag

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Fréwaka

2024

Liked 20

Excellent horror tale that burrowed under my skin early on and stayed there after the credits rolled. Great performances and a wicked tone distinguish this unnerving Irish-language folk horror and create a waking nightmare that slowly eats the protagonist - and the viewer - alive.

Highly recommended for fans of slow-burn, atmospheric horror. Aislinn Clarke is definitely a director to watch.

Talk Radio

1988

Liked 10

Fierce, hypnotic, and one of my favorites from the eighties. Eric Bogosian is incredible, both on camera and on the page, as he adapts his stage play through the lens of a remarkably restrained Oliver Stone. It's riveting throughout, as Bogosian's razor-sharp performance takes us on a journey of loneliness and disillusionment, staring into the abyss of "entertainment" and "audience" and finding that it has no bottom. Prescient and provocative, this is a movie I frequently find myself recommending. It doesn't get the flowers it deserves.

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Madame Web

2024

Liked 226

We come to this place… for magic.
We come to the theater to laugh, to cry, to care.
Because we need that, all of us:
that indescribable feeling we get when the lights begin to dim,
and we go somewhere we've never been before;
not just entertained, but somehow reborn.... together.
Dazzling images, on a huge silver screen.
Sound that I can feel.
Somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like this.
Our heroes feel like the best part of us,
and stories feel perfect and powerful.

Because here...

They are.

The Holdovers

2023

Liked 30

Lovely slice of life story from Alexander Payne. Simple, humble, and elegant reminder that everyone we encounter is fighting their own battles, and that we rarely know what they are. I found this to be a gentle ode to comion, very well acted, and written and directed with quiet wisdom. Highly recommended.

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