Building the Top 250 Kerouacking - Midnight Run Bounty hunter Robert De Niro. Shady accountant Charles Grodin. A cross-country road trip. Hilarity ensues.
2025 Films Everything's Fine - The Fantastic Four: First Steps Review The non-diegetics of Marvel Studios have become more interesting than the diegetics
Steven Spielberg Stoikey Muzhik Values - Bridge of Spies Spielberg's 60s Cold War drama depicts the American justice system at work and is more relevant today than it was on release ten years ago.
Television Stumbling Into a New Format - The Leftovers s1 Sometimes, a creator clashes with the rules of how things normally work. If they're lucky enough, they break the rules when they find something that works.
Wachowskis Catharsis Without Synthesis - Cloud Atlas The Wachowskis bring multiple timelines together without the use of time travel
Superheroes The Highest Fidelity - Zack Snyder's Watchmen Adaptation is more than just building a simulacrum
Building the Top 250 Dreams Are Just Memories While We Sleep - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Relationships are so much more than a cost/benefit analysis
Shakespeare Love's Leisure's Park Nostalgically celebrating Shakespeare and the good ol' days when kids could spend their summers in an edenic, anarchist fever dream
Before Sunrise Memories of a Sleepless Night - Before Sunrise Linklater's grand romance starts by hiding deep themes in a deceptively simple film
Television Using a Little Fat to Cut Through the Acid - The Bear s4 After a good season that also felt almost ulcer-inducing, The Bear returns with a season that delivers a comfort food version of the show.
Methodology Building a New List of Top 250 Movies This one's for process nerds and those who love methodologies...
Joss Whedon Toxic Wells of Inspiration It's been 150 years and still The American Civil War is a hot button issue
2025 Films The Zombie Apocalypse Makes Parents of Us All - 28 Years Later More than two decades later and it's still pretty gnarly...
Television You Can't Take the Skies From Me: Revisiting Joss Whedon's Firefly 20 years ago, it was the great cancellation trauma of the early 00s. Today, accountability culture has (rightly) eclipsed its creator into disgrace. What should be its legacy?
Malazan Gardens of the Moon Chapters 1-10 - The Sandee Boyz Our march into the Malazan Book of the Fallen begins...
Martin Scorsese Circling Around Themes With a long enough filmography, recurring fascinations emerge...
Los Angeles On Los Angeles... We'll be back to regularly scheduled programing on Friday, but first...
Television Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts* and the Waning of American Cultural Hegemony Does the world still want what America is peddling?
Television The Intersection of Art & Commerce - Hacks Season 4 HBO Max's hit comedy explores a timeworn theme...
Episode Reviews "The Reality War" - Doctor Who s15e08 Review It's been an absolute joy... but... reality has a way of mucking with that.
