About a year ago, I asked my Mom if she wanted to see a movie I had heard about called Everything Everywhere All At Once. The only thing I knew about was that it was directed by the same guys that did Swiss Army Man and the music video for…

As of this writing, I’m currently subbed to 67, scratch that, 65 podcasts. I haven’t listened to The After Disaster or the It’s Always Sunny recap show in over a year. Yer outta here! Anyway, I wanted to talk about something I’ve noticed while listening to the Indie Spirit Awards…

This isn’t going to be one of those ‘Sorry everyone for taking so much time off! I’ll try to get back to a more consistent schedule!’ posts. You’ll take my content at the pace I make it, and you’ll like it! The Smattering is what I’m calling this once-in-a-blue-moon blog…

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. A chime in the hallway, a humming in the fridge, a rattling in a car’s air vents, a student twitching his leg, her assistant conductor playing with his pen, a metronome going off…

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. Themes and ideas that Olivia Wilde’s newest film, Don’t Worry Darling, seem moderately interested in playing with for about 20…

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…