A former editor of millimeter, the magazine about the technology of making movies, I’ve written about movies for the World and Independent Film Page on About.com. the Kansas City Star and local site KCActive. I’m a guest critic on the independent, foreign and documentary review episodes of Steve Kraske's "Up to Date" on KCUR, the Kansas City NPR affiliate and a former member of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle.

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Seven Psychopaths (2012)

October 15, 2012

Writer/director Martin McDonagh’s (In Bruges) much anticipated return to movie theaters is a surprisingly meta adventure that risks it all by taking the piss out of its own subsistence. In a brilliant move that both honors and marks the end of an era dominated by pastiche artists Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, Seven Psychopaths is at once both the ultra gangster shootout movie and the anti-gangster shootout movie. Read the full review on KCActive.com.

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