Broadway We Haven't Got Time - Merrily We Roll Along The new pro-shot of the recent Broadway revival unlocks the full potential of Sondheim's hidden gem masterpiece
Building the Top 250 Harnessing the Metatext - Unforgiven Clint Eastwood deconstructs westerns, tests his audience's patience, and delivers a masterpiece
Wes Anderson A Sense of Belonging - Moonrise Kingdom When society fails, fall out of it and build your own
Wicked When All Your Dreams Come True - Wicked Part One, For Good, and all the challenges of adaptation
Before Midnight Myth Meets Reality - Before Midnight It's one of the great cinematic love stories and unlike the others, this one isn't exactly a feel good...
Episode Reviews Does the Title Even Matter Any More? - The Morning Show s04e10: "Knowing Violation" Another season, another hinge point where Alex Levy makes news on a live broadcast?
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...
Tollywood When Four Hours Isn't Long Enough - Baahubali: The Epic The biggest 2022 theatrical release (for me anyways) was S.S. Rajamouli’s RRR, a major milestone in Indian cinema that crossed over to a global box office and took cinephiles by storm. RRR is a crowd pleaser, the sort of batshit insane high octane sugar rush that can get
Episode Reviews Antepenultimate Sadness - The Morning Show s04e08: "The Parent Trap" Bradley Jackson isn't in this episode because she doesn't have parents. Just a brother who was at the Capitol on Jan 6.
Wes Anderson A Wonderful Melancholy - The Grand Budapest Hotel With his first solo-writing credit, Wes Anderson distills his own style to its purest form
TV Reviews Maybe Don't Lie to the FBI... Again - The Morning Show s04e07 And then we'll cut to the Pat Sajack tribute...
Building the Top 250 The Madness of Friendship - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre When life imitates art...
Episode Reviews Getting on a Plane to Naples - The Morning Show s04e06: "If Then" (With a layover in Rome...)
Soccer Retrofitting in Retrospect I promise this won't become like George R.R. Martin's baseball blog...
Building the Top 250 Be the Triangle You Want to See In the World - Seven Samurai The circles alone are not enough.
TV Reviews Tonal Chaos - The Morning Show s04e05: "Amari" It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's fascinating.
Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese Is How Old? - The Wolf of Wall Street By the time he made this debauched, wild ride of a movie, Martin Scorsese was already collecting social security checks...
2025 James Cameron rewatch Does This Count As Lazy? - Avatar: The Way of Water 13 years after 13 years later, James Cameron puts out another masterpiece.
