2025 James Cameron rewatch Measuring Cultural Irrelevance - Avatar (2009) The film series that no one cares about is somehow the greatest box office success story of all time...
Building the Top 250 The Michelle Williams Back Tattoo - Synecdoche, New York It's so much more than a trauma metaphor
Book Reviews Suds Stick Together - The Dead of Summer Exploring the idea of triumvirate through Ryan La Sala's latest YA horror novel
Wes Anderson Robust Backstory - The Royal Tenenbaums Wes Anderson's breakout hit introduces all of his idiosyncracies... except for his sterility.
2025 James Cameron rewatch There Must Be More To Life Than This - True Lies James Cameron's blind alley/mid-life crisis film.
Episode Reviews Retro Format In the Streaming Era - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds s3 "Through the Lens of Time" quintessentially represents the series' most recent season
Walk & Talks We'll Always Have Paris - Before Sunset How would you spend your life if you only had 80 minutes left to live it?
The Terminator James Cameron & The Art of the Sequel - Terminator 2: Judgment Day In which James Cameron shows the difference between plot and story
Building the Top 250 Freshening Up A Genre-Medium - The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly The distance from the birth of cinema to Leone's third film is roughly the same time span as this to our present. How long until we can get something this good with the zeitgeist of the now?
2025 James Cameron rewatch Close Encounters of the Aquatic Kind - The Abyss It's like a second draft but by a different film maker and with a different emotional core
Monthly Check-in September 2025 Check In Hello! We’ve gone through another month! Hope you’ve been safe and well! The first half of the month was hectic. Lots of little trips and life getting in the way of all the work to do. I had almost two months lead time on watching the films for
Martin Scorsese This Is America - Taxi Driver One Travis Bickle was enough in 1976. How many are around today?
2025 James Cameron rewatch Space Marines & Space Mothers - Aliens James Cameron's sequel to Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic flips to an entirely new genre... but most people misunderstand why it works like it does
Building the Top 250 Life During Wartime - Dunkirk Christopher Nolan's World War II epic turns a legendary miracle into a small, intimate, personal tone poem
The Terminator We Were Both Young When I First Saw You - The Terminator It's a love story, baby, just say yes
Theatre An Easy Road That's Paved With Good Intentions What do a 400 year-old play, Netflix's first original TV series, and a YA book from a couple years ago have in common?
Joss Whedon She Always Did Love To Dance - Serenity Joss Whedon's theatrical debut was a sci-fi blockbuster that brought Firefly to a close, but in the wake of his cancelling, does it still hold up?
2025 James Cameron rewatch Should It Count? - Piranha II: The Spawning James Cameron has disowned his schlocky B-movie directorial debut, wishing it excised from his canon. Should it be?
2025 Films Fragmented Narratives - Weapons Review Zach Cregger's followup to Barbarian is a smash at the box office, but one complaint is more of a feature than a bug
Building the Top 250 Fame's Shallow Ocean - Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder's 75-year-old celebration of old and new Hollywood buts up against the value of fame and celebrity. And it's probably even more relevant now than it was when it first came out
