Book Review: “Keanu Reeves Most Triumphant” by Alex Pappademas

Last week while walking on Fourth Street in Long Beach, I stumbled upon Casita Bookstore where I discovered “Keanu Reeves Most Triumphant: The Movies and Meaning of an Irrepressible Icon” by the Los Angeles-based writer Alex Pappademas. Like Keith Phipps’s recent “The Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career,” Pappademas’s 2022 …

A Few Thoughts on Adam Nayman’s David Fincher Book

I finished reading film critic and academic Adam Nayman’s auteurist take on the American filmmaker David Fincher, David Fincher: Mind Games, last week. Since the book isn’t that fresh in my mind, I’ll skip a full review and just post a few thoughts I had on it. Overall, Nayman has released a very fine, attractive, …