2025 Films

A collection of 21 posts

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May 2026 Update

According to Ghost, this is my 150th entry. That's a crazy milestone. Last month was a bit of a roller coaster. A project at work took over a ton of my brain space and it was really hard to get out thoughts to write anything in the face

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Slash Fiction - Scream 7

The following contains spoilers for the Scream movies, the trailer to Abigail, and A Nightmare on Elm Street 3. This is your warning. The marketing for Scream 7 leans heavily on the phrase "Burn it all down". It's a key line in the trailers, and every

Newsletter

March 2026 Check In

What's the biggest update this month? My partner and I got a dog. His name is Agador Spartacus and he's already a gem. A foster family found him on the street and so a lot of my caretaking energy for the past two weeks have been

Criterion Challenge

Feb 2026 Check-in

Happy Valentine's Day from our inherently satirical existence

Monthly Check-in

Jan 2026 Check-in

Mrs. Landingham... what's next?

Martin Scorsese

A Very Personal List of Top 250 Films - Part 5: #50-1

A list in which there aren't any films that are better than these...

Martin Scorsese

A Very Personal List of Top 250 Films - Part 1: #250-201

Spoilers: gotta get the MCU out of the way...

2025 Films

Because I Saw You - Avatar: Fire & Ash

It's more Avatar: The Way of Water 2...

Monthly Check-in

December 2025 Check In

Somehow the year is over? Yeesh.

Rian Johnson

Paying For Your Sins - Wake Up Dead Man

In which Benoit Blanc goes to church

Wicked

When All Your Dreams Come True - Wicked

Part One, For Good, and all the challenges of adaptation

Edgar Wright

Left Out In the Cold - The Running Man & the Films of Edgar Wright

In which I argue that maybe he should leave the emotion out of it...

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

2025 Films

Everything's Fine - The Fantastic Four: First Steps Review

The non-diegetics of Marvel Studios have become more interesting than the diegetics

James Gunn

A Brighter Tomorrow - Superman (2025)

It's everything we want it to be

2025 Films

The Zombie Apocalypse Makes Parents of Us All - 28 Years Later

More than two decades later and it's still pretty gnarly...

2025 Films

Live Together, Die Alone - Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

For Ethan Hunt, it takes a village.

Superheroes

Thunderbolts*: Marvel's Old Habits Try To Build Something New - Review

With the final film of Phase Five, Marvel is doing the Herculean effort of dragging the MCU back onto the tracks

Criterion Challenge

The May 2025 Check-in

A month is gone, a month is here. What is/was in store?

Canon Conundrum

The Seven Ethans Hunt - Canon Conundrum

When your main character is never quite the same person...

Ryan Coogler

The Illusion of Freedom

In Sinners, Ryan Coogler uses B-movie schlock as a vehicle to explore what it means to truly be free