In the nomenclature of sports, I’ve been putting up numbers this year. Keep your pants on, ladies; as of this writing, I’ve seen 376 movies, watched 21 TV shows, read (listened to) over 75 books, and listened to an untold number of podcasts. But first, I’m gonna give a little…

Rarely is a movie, or any media for matter, made about the time in a person’s life when they are not yet a teenager nor are they a still a child. A time in your life when you are starting to become embarrassed by your parents, but still cling to…

Everything Everywhere All At Once is a movie that resonates with me more than any other I’ve ever seen. My parents divorced when I was 9, for a long time I was furious at my mom for causing it. She didn’t but I didn’t know that then. For a long time, around 15 years, there was a palpable air of tension between us. We would sometimes get into shouting matches but it was mostly just a cold war, neither of us willing to cave and talk about what was going on. That, along with Evelyn taking care of her elderly father, is what I relate with the most with Joys and Evelyn’s relationship.

Lydia Tàr is a character that needs absolute control over every aspect of her intricately designed life. …

Radicalized online toxic masculinity, desperate for acceptance to the point of ignoring massive warning signs, and normalized gender roles and the way they’re magnified and codified in an authoritarian space. …

Living in a post-Get Out, Scream, Cabin In The Woods, and other ‘meta horrors’ of the last 10–15 years, audiences are demanding more innovative horror movies and cleverer and more competent characters within those movies. This is all fine and well, but it does become a problem for a few…

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” — Thorin Oakenshield I’ve talked before about how movies, and all media, are machines that generate empathy. About how even the media that isn’t that good can elicit an emotional response…

From a purely filmmaking point of view, The Passion Of Joan Of Arc was years, maybe decades, ahead of its time. Movie directors of its time, Chaplins comedies and Germany’s horror and science fiction, kept their camera far away from the actors and sets. Those actors and sets would then…

Horror movies, and to a similar extent thrillers, have always been a reflection of modern-day societal fears and anxieties. In the ’70s, some movies took on the mistrust of government institutions (All The Presidents Men, The Parallax View, Three Days Of The Condor). …