Articles by Riley

The Mountain Goats bring fervent Indie Folk to Water Street Music Hall

These guys had way too much energy for a Thursday night. Read More

Immigrants, we get the job done: “Hamilton” 10 years later

In an age of Sydney Sweeney jeans commercials with potential eugenicist themes, Big Beautiful Bills, and "Red Flag Alert for Genocide" designations, it feels almost scandalous hearing a largely POC cast sing about immigrant pride and women's independence. Read More

Jason Momoa performs humiliation ritual in the form of “A Minecraft Movie”

As a whole, this movie was bad in about every way a movie can possibly be bad. ’m not quite pretentious enough to pretend the purpose of “A Minecraft Movie” is to provide a great work of art to an adult population of English majors. Read More

Dedicated to everyone in the movie theater who laughed at “The Substance”

“The Substance”, though quite effectively campy and satirical at times, is not a comedy. Read More

“Novocaine” provides immersive experience: slowly and painfully tortures audience for two hours

For a movie about a guy who can’t feel pain, I sure felt a lot of it while watching. And I don’t mean sympathetically. Read More

“Alien: Romulus” might remind you to take your birth control

It’s rare to be able to claim that a sequel is “worth it” in 2024. Read More