Movies

A collection of 87 posts

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

Before Sunrise

Memories of a Sleepless Night - Before Sunrise

Linklater's grand romance starts by hiding deep themes in a deceptively simple film

Monthly Check-in

July 2025 Check-in

Gosh is the year half started already?

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

The Worlds of Joss Whedon - Foundational Texts

What do we do when our heroes let us down?

Martin Scorsese

Circling Around Themes

With a long enough filmography, recurring fascinations emerge...

Episode Reviews

June Check-in

A grab bag to kick off the month and see how things are going...

Movies

Sometimes Audiences Know

The fascinating flop that was Joker Folie a Deux

Television

Have Stories Gotten Too Long?

Or is it just our insatiable appetite telling us we're perpetually hungry?

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?

Superheroes

Superman is a Blue Lantern

The case for cautious optimism in James Gunn's Superman