Jason Adams

6 days ago | pajiba.com | Jason Adams

“It’s not a conspiracy, it’s a family!” That line of dialogue was spoken by one Flanders “Flan” Kittredge (Donald Sutherland) in the 1993 film version of Six Degrees of Separation. A wonderful film and a wonderful performance (go watch it if you never have), which coincidentally you could drop down into any Wes Anderson movie without breaking a single bead of sweat.

2 weeks ago | soc.life | Jason Adams

It’s tempting for a gay writer like me to say here in retrospect that the titular Playhouse that the series Pee-wee’s Playhouse was centered around—a magical structure that stood half-Sphinx in the middle of a claymation forest, where Chairs and Floors and Genies alike all sang and screamed and let their imaginations slash ids run amok—was its maker Paul Reubens turning The Closet he’d chosen to live in into something wondrous. An escape from his, our, stifling reality.

2 weeks ago | pajiba.com | Jason Adams

It’s tempting for a gay writer like me to say here in retrospect that the titular Playhouse that the series Pee-wee’s Playhouse was centered around—a magical structure that stood half-Sphinx in the middle of a claymation forest, where Chairs and Floors and Genies alike all sang and screamed and let their imaginations slash ids run amok—was its maker Paul Reubens turning The Closet he’d chosen to live in into something wondrous. An escape from his, our, stifling reality.

3 weeks ago | pajiba.com | Jason Adams

By Jason Adams | Film | May 17, 2025 Header Image Source: Lionsgate The pop stars are not okay. We’ve been inundated over the past few years with movies about how the weight of the world is crushing the shoulders of our slim chanteuserie, from Lady Gaga in A Star is Born to Naomi Scott in Smile 2 to M. Night Shyamalan’s daughter falling into Josh Hartnett’s Trap. Who could have predicted that Brady Corbet’s Vox Lox was going to end up being so secretly influential?

1 month ago | pajiba.com | Jason Adams

Watching gorgeous people be tormented by emotional demons is one of the great joys of going to the movies. And having them be just normal Joes and Janes while they do all that on a big screen—well that’s become an ever rarer delicacy altogether in these days of Super Joes and Ultra Janes saving the world née the universe.